AP Stupidity

No wonder voters are confused about Iraq:

From Associated Press, a graf that is revealing:

Anbar has transformed from an insurgent haven partly run by al-Qaida to a chunk of Iraqi heartland safe enough for the president and his war Cabinet to spend the day. The turnaround has much to do with calculated choices by Sunni chiefs fed up with al-Qaida excesses and has little to do with affection for U.S. forces that residents still call occupiers.

Does Gearan, the reporter in this piece, understand that Bush visited a military base with a 13 mile security perimeter? Does she realize that seven American soldiers died the next day in Anbar?

Sheeesssh.