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Bill Maher is back from hiatus:

The reason I came back is because I felt a little bit guilty. You know, me not working while the surge IS working. That's right, apparently the surge IS working. Not the actual surge -- but the phrase, "The surge is working."

That seems to be working, proving once again that Americans will believe anything if you repeat it enough.

Recently we also learn that the US command in Iraq has lost track of about 110 thousand AK-47 rifles and 80 thousand pistols that we provided to the Iraqi forces, who you may know by their real name, "sectarian militias."

Now that's a lot of firepower that just happened to fall off a truck. It kind of makes you nostalgic for the good old days when the only weapons missing in Iraq were the imaginary ones.