The worsening of “increasingly”

NeoSullivanistic Greenwaldians beware!
According to Dave Price, the “increasingly effective” meme (which got Glenn Reynolds in so much trouble with Andrew Sullivan) is back with a vengeance:

Major-General Joseph Fil, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, said al Qaeda in Iraq no longer had a foothold in any part of the city of 7 million people.
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He said the Iraqi security forces had become “much, much more effective,”

Read Dave’s post. Call me a hyperventilating hyperbolist, but I think that from an anti-war perspective, “much, much more” sounds even more ominous than “increasingly.”
Only this time, it’s not Glenn “STAB IN THE BACK” Reynolds’ fault!