Petraeus says Iraq "Surge" Working: Paper

Petraeus has turned out to be a loyal lap dog. That is the type general the Bushies like. Any dissent will get the general kicked upstairs, shuffling paper at the Pentagon, like all the rest. What the General doesn't understand is that he will be made the fall guy if things start to turn bad again--which is inevitable. And that point he will kicked upstairs or forced to retire. Either way, the General is expendable:

The U.S. troop surge in Iraq has thrown al Qaeda off balance and led to a reduction in sectarian violence and bombings, the U.S. commander in Iraq was quoted on Friday by an Australian newspaper as saying.

"We say we have achieved progress, and we are obviously going to do everything we can to build on that progress and we believe al Qaeda is off balance at the very least," General David Petraeus told the Australian in an interview after briefing Australia's defense minister, Brendan Nelson, in Baghdad.