During his high-profile, six-hour visit to Iraq, President Bush declared: “if the kind of success we are now seeing here continues, it will be possible to maintain the same level of security with fewer American forces.”

The media latched on to this superficial remark as a “clear indication” and a “hint” that the President intended to redeploy troops from Iraq in the near future. CBS News called the trip a “dramatic move to steal the thunder from the Democratic Congress.”

Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, however, are skeptical. They’ve produced a new ad, nothing that we’ve heard exaggerated declarations of progress in Iraq and false promises of troop reductions from the Bush administrations before. They pose the question, “Do they really mean it this time?“:

For a reality-based assessment of the results of the surge, see BodyPolitik’s own “ActUp” report, “The Surge Has Failed, The Troops Must Come Home.”

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