Senator Durbin off-message and on target?

Hard to believe that at this stage of the election cycle that the very partisan Sen. Durbin would say something like this.

The security situation in Iraq has improved somewhat since his last visit, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Saturday.

"Before, I was confined to the Green Zone. Things have improved to the point where we're able to travel outside the Green Zone. We went to the Sunni Triangle today and met with Marines," Durbin said in a conference call with a half-dozen reporters.

"It is, I think, a more secure environment than I felt a year and a half before, but the battle of Baghdad is still raging.

Good for him though.