It seems that the surge is, dare I say, working. I thought Harry Reid said the war was lost and the surge had failed? Someone forgot to the the United States military. Now that the country is safer, people are coming home:

“Security has definitely improved, and improved by far,” said Said I. Hakki, president of the Iraqi Red Crescent Organization, the aid group that compiled the statistics. “And yet the return is really not that dramatic, when you consider that there are almost 2 million Iraqi refugees out of the country.”

The new figures, contained in a report scheduled for release Monday, are significantly lower than those provided by some Iraqi officials. One Iraqi spokesman said nearly 50,000 returned in October alone.