Another argument for the Dems and doves on Iraq disappears

As the “surge” has greatly reduced violence and re-integrated Iraqi Sunnis into the body politic, Democrats and other war opponents have clung to a “lack of political progress” in Baghdad to insist that the whole thing was a failure.

Well, this past week, the Iraqi Parliament agreed to the following (Weekly Standard): a $48 billion budget that effectively distributed oil revenue among Iraq’s 18 provinces, an amnesty for thousands of Iraqi prisoners who have not been charged with a crime, and the biggest one of all - provincial elections set on October 1 for governments with real power.

Democrats have loudly claimed that the only thing the surge was suposed to accomplish was reconciliation and political advances in Baghdad - as if everything else that has been achieved can be ignored.  Now that the very things they say were paramount are on their way to being achieved, will they acknowledge the success?

Or will they move the goalposts yet again in another desperate attempt to call the success a delayed failure?