Campaigning In Sadr City

Another installment (#19) of Arthur Chrenkoff's roundup of good news from Iraq. Give it a read - if only as a reality check as to the woefully inadequate and one sided coverage we recieve from our mainstream broadcasters. An example - remember the seige of Sadr City?

Brig. Gen. Jeffery Hammond of the 1st Cavalry Division, says Sadr City is the safest place in or around Baghdad. About 18,000 people have reconstruction jobs, he says, earning about $6 a day. "Sadr City is what the future of Iraq can look like," he says. Those who were once taking up arms are now talking democracy. 'Before, the men were buying black cloth for their (martyrs') banners. Now for the election, we are buying white cloths' for posters, says candidate Fatah al-Sheikh.