[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well we have this news report also:

Iraq: Baathists 'disown al-Qaeda'(To open "Dialogue" With Iraq Government!)

[jedward]

Thanks for pinging this...I don’t have any ping lists, so I just posted it and figured someone might see it.

[Marine_Uncle]

For the WP and Reuters to write:
"Slowly but deliberately, U.S. forces are enlisting groups of armed men -- many probably former insurgents -- and paying cash, a strategy they say has dramatically reduced violence in some of Iraq's most dangerous areas in just weeks."
Is obviously indicative that things are moving along very well from the military standpoint, and to a degree the political view. These Sunni had been mostly under Saddamist control in this area. Many ex players in his ranks.
Reid, Biden, along with their many cohorts are going to become quite embarrassed when the L/MSM slowly start to acknowlege there really has been no civil war. And start to leak accurate info as how various criminal groups have worked for money with Saddamist/AQIR etc., and of course on the other side the Sadrist goons, to make things look as distorted as they have been in the news.
If the Izzat Ibrihim al Douri deal turns out to be accurate, the democrates are in a lot of deep doo doo.