Tell that to this guy....

The US government tonight welcomed Britain's decision to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, despite its own surge of more than 20,000 soldiers to the country.

Tony Blair announced a cut of more than 2,000 UK personnel in Basra by the end of the summer, in a special statement to parliament today.

Dick Cheney, the US vice-president called it "an affirmation that in parts of Iraq...things are going pretty well."[emphasis mine]

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