Our Secretary of Defense is a bit of a liar

Note his quote today:

"I am optimistic on the security side because of what I see in al-Anbar, and what we're seeing in some of the other provinces where we're getting some cooperation," he said.

What he doesn't tell you: Al-Anbar province wasn't part of the "surge." Yet that's our biggest success of the surge, something that wasn't a part of the surge, because it wasn't bad enough to require additional forces.

Second lie:

"In some ways we probably all underestimated the depth of the mistrust and how difficult it would be for these guys [the Iraqi parliament] to come together on legislation," Gates said.

We all? Try you all.