House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) has again called the Iraq surge “a failure.” Pelosi needs to read a letter written by an al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu-Tariq to top terror leaders proclaiming the organization to be in “extraordinary crisis,” and how the the defection of Sunnis to fight with the U.S. military has “created panic, fear, and the unwillingness to fight.”

How is that not, as Pelosi claims, “the desired effect?”