109 more dead in Iraq, as the surge begins

You can tell that the insurgents are already going into hiding:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An explosion outside a Baghdad university as students were heading home for the day killed at least 65 people on Tuesday, in the deadliest of several attacks on predominantly Shiite areas. The attack came on a day the United Nations said more than 34,000 Iraqi civilians died last year in sectarian violence.

Attacks in Baghdad — the university explosion, blasts at a marketplace for used motorcycles and a drive-by shooting — came as at least 109 people were killed or found dead nationwide in what appeared to be a final spasm of violence ahead of an imminent security operation by the Iraqi government and U.S. forces to secure the capital.

I love the administration spin that crept into that last paragraph. The "final spasm of violence." Sure thing. Their also in their last throes I suppose. And, it's only a handful of dead-enders who are doing this, I suppose. And, we're actually really winning even though you can't tell it from either being there or by reading the biased news media's accounts of it. And Tinker Bell is coming to the rescue, if only you clap your hands loudly enough.

The question is what the "surge" really refers to. Perhaps it refers to the "surge" in violence we're seeing.