Where have all the cynics gone?

The surge is working.

The same government that told us the smoking gun might come in the form of a mushroom cloud, the same government that told us the war would pay for itself, that we'd be greeted like liberators, that Saddam was linked with Al Quaeda, that proof of weapons of mass destruction was incontrovertible, that told us that Brownie was doing a heckuva job, that global warming is a sham, that they are compassionate conservatives, that no child is being left behind, that same government now tells us the surge is working.

Do you believe it? If yes, why?