General Petraeus says surge working and we need to keep troops there. I swear you could have knocked me over with a feather.

The 30,000 additional troops deployed to Iraq in January could come home by next July, but further American withdrawals would be "premature," the U.S. commander there told a fractious congressional hearing Monday.

"Our experience in Iraq has repeatedly shown that projecting too far into the future is not just difficult, it can be misleading and even hazardous," Gen. David Petraeus said at a joint hearing of the House Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees. "The events of the past six months underscore that point."

If you would allow me I will translate the above statement for you. What the General is saying is: "We have no idea what is going to happen next, or what to do about it."

Feel safer?

So the Petraeus report has finally arrived, and our long national wait is over, and we have learned.....nothing new. Violence is down in the sections where the troops were stationed. The government has made no new progress, and there is no idea when they will. If we bring our troops home we don't know what will happen to the country.

Well am pretty damn underwhelmed here. We waited all of these months for this?

You know I never thought I would remember fondly the day that Geraldo Rivera was about to reveal the secrets of Al Capone's vault. At least no American lives were lost during THAT debacle.