You can bore yourself watching the misleading statements of General Petraeus, or I’ll summarize with a shorter version: it’s going swimmingly over there.

Except he didn’t show this graphic showing how Iraqis feel about “improvements” in Iraq:  (via Think Progress): 

* 65 to 70 percent of Iraqis say the escalation has “worsened rather than improved security.”
* 78 percent say “things are going badly for the country overall,” up 13 points since winter.
* 63 percent say it was wrong for the U.S. to have invaded Iraq, up from 52 percent in March and 39 percent in Feb. 2004.
* 47 percent now favor “immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces,” a 12-point rise since March.

And what about this:

We’re kicking ass.

Surf over to Media Matters for its report, Myths and Falsehoods About “Progress” in Iraq.