Back to reality, we are still in Iraq.

Crooks and Liars:

In fact, the US has ceded one more region to the Iraqi government on Monday:

The US military handed over Anbar province to Iraqi security forces yesterday, less than two years after it almost lost it to a Sunni Arab insurgency.

“We are in the last ten yards of this terrible fight. The goal is very near,” Major-General John Kelly, commander of American forces in Anbar, told US, Iraqi and tribal officials at a ceremony in the provincial capital, Ramad, to mark the event.

“Your lives and the lives of your children depend on victory.”

Maj-Gen Kelly and Anbar’s governor, Mamun Sami Rasheed, embraced after signing a document making Anbar the 11th of Iraq’s 18 provinces, and the first Sunni Arab one, to be returned to Iraqi control since the US-led invasion.