We have the following from The Washington Post, "More than three months into a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, Health Ministry statistics show that such killings are rising again." And in the same article we have, "President Bush and other senior administration officials have cited declines in sectarian killings in justifying U.S. troop increases and additional funding for the war. 'The level of sectarian violence is an important indicator of whether or not the strategy that we have implemented is working,' Bush said May 10."

What say you now oh great decider...? Using your litmus test, doesn't this indicate the strategy is not working?