Chrenkoff's latest roundup of good news from Iraq is out.
Drudge is also headlining a New York Times (free registration required) piece suggesting the US is starting to look at winding down the military presence.
Two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the American-led military campaign in Iraq is making enough progress in fighting insurgents and training Iraqi security forces to allow the Pentagon to plan for significant troop reductions by early next year, senior commanders and Pentagon officials say.Senior American officers are wary of declaring success too soon against an insurgency they say still has perhaps 12,000 to 20,000 hard-core fighters, plentiful financing and the ability to change tactics quickly to carry out deadly attacks. But there is a consensus emerging among these top officers and other senior defense officials about several positive developing trends, although each carries a cautionary note.
Some occupiers they turned out to be.
Not to mention all the oil they "stole"... yep, "invading" Iraq and killing all those poor "innocents" has given the US a bountiful supply of cheap gas.
Oh... what's that? Record prices? Um... and now they're leaving? And what's that? The campaign to liberate Iraq was among the most successful military campaigns in history? With the least collateral losses ever?
Just flies in the face of what we keep hearing, doesn't it?
There is not much news reported from Iraq or Afghanistan any more. I wonder why? Oh yeah, they have a democracy, unlike Canada.