Four Car Bombs, 178 Dead...Early Signs of Progress?

If this is what they refer to as progress, then "victory" shouldn't be too far away.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the military had anticipated that al-Qaida terrorists and other insurgents "would attempt to increase the violence in order to make the plan a failure or to make the people of Iraq."

Attempt is one thing, achieve is quite another. This is over, this pipe dream, castle in the sky, is over.