[ohioWfan]

The surge was already working by the time Bush's approval numbers were in the 30's. There was no "pussy footing" going on by the time the leftist media managed to drive his poll numbers down to where they wanted them to be by 100% negativity. The reality of what was happening in Iraq had nothing to do with the 2008 numbers.

(And since the polls are always skewed to the left, they weren't accurate numbers anyway).

[TexasFreeper2009]

I disagree the surge might have been working better than what was being done prior to that, but pails in comparison to the effectiveness of dropping daisy cutters from 30,000 feet with zero casualties on our side. Places like Fallujah should be glass parking lots, instead 1000’s of our best are dead while the citizens that stood and took pictures of our dead soldiers hanging from the bridge go on with their lives.