So How's Iraq After That Escalation Surge?

Stupid mistake, send them home, says Joint Chiefs chairman
"General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is expected to tell Bush privately that maintaining more than 100,000troops of the currently 162,000 in Iraq through 2008 year would severely strain the military, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing military and administration officials."

Refugees double since "surge" began
"The U.S. troop "surge" has brought with it a parallel rise in the number of internally displaced Iraqis, according to recent figures. The Iraqi Red Crescent has reported that that since the "surge" began in February 2007, the total number of internally displaced Iraqis has nearly doubled, from 499,000 to over 1.1 million.
The U.N.'s International Organization for Migration has almost identical findings.
The humanitarian groups' figures are limited, as they both rely on data collected from Iraqis requesting services."
Meanwhile 1 in 7 lucky Iraqis managed to flee the hellhole completely
While more than a million aren't going anywhere anymore

Puppet government near collapse

Iran just invaded Iraq
"Iranian troops penetrated five kilometers into Iraqi territory causing massive material damage, report Iraqi-Kurdish groups on Internet sites, namely the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). "The Iranian army launched a full-scale war," a local official in the region was quoted as saying in the reports."

Turkey still wants to invade Iraq as well

Here's your Vietnam comparison, Bush
"An American defence official, briefing journalists ahead of publication, said US forces are braced for "a mini-Tet". He predicted that the attack could be timed to maximise political pressure on President Bush, when the US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, goes to Congress next month to provide an up-to-date assessment of progress."