Just days after the Iraq Study Group issued their downbeat assessment of the war on Iraq, Iraqi insurgents announced that they have formed their own study group and have released their own report, one that offers a much rosier picture of the Iraqi conflict.

The Insurgents Study Group, a collection of ten elder insurgents charged with the duty of assessing the war from the insurgents’ point of view, today issued a 147-page report which became an instant bestseller among insurgent readers across Iraq.

“The war in Iraq is going great and is improving every day,” the Insurgents Study Group’s report begins.

In contrast to the Iraq Study Group’s report, which advocates that the United States and its allies change their strategy in Iraq, the Insurgents Study Group recommends “not changing a thing.”

“As insurgents, our strategy could be summarized in three words,” the report concludes. “Stay the course.”

In addition to its upbeat assessment of the war in Iraq, the Insurgents Study Group report reserves some choice barbs for its American rivals, the Iraq Study Group.

“The Iraq Study Group’s report suggests that Iran and Syria might somehow help the U.S. out,” the report says. “With so-called brilliant ideas like that, they don’t deserve the name Study Group.”

In response, Iraq Study Group co-chair James A. Baker III said, “Oh yeah? I’d like to see their Study Group say that to my Study Group’s face.”

Elsewhere, according to close associates of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who died over the weekend at age 91, his last words were, “I knew I shouldn’t have gone to Taco Bell.”