General Petraeus gets ready for next month's report to Congress:
The security trend lines all are favorable, the general said. "Attacks have continued to go down. We've had a five-month period consistently of a level of attacks we've not seen since spring of 2005," he said. "This past week was the fourth-lowest since October 2004." Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan C. Crocker will explain why they believe attacks have come down when they report to President Bush and Congress. The general said he is encouraged by the statistics and what he sees around the country. "In fact, the level of attacks has come down in recent weeks below a level we thought might be the ‘irreducible minimum,'" he said.
So far this month, not a single U.S. soldier has been killed in Iraq by hostile fire (one soldier was killed in a helicopter crash yesterday). Something tells me that come April, Hillary's not going to call Petraeus a liar as she did last fall.