Credit Due?

(Fox News) - House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey thinks the troop surge and the accompanying counterinsurgency operations in Iraq have had little to do with the decline in violence. The Wisconsin Democrat took a question during an appearance at the National Press Club about whether the surge was working — and said the issue has never been military — but political — in getting Iraqis to work together.

And he added —"One of the reasons that we've had incidents of sectarian violence go down is because they are running out of people to kill. They've killed so many in so many areas, that there are fewer opportunity targets, if you want to put it that way, for each side."