Good News From Iraq
Power Line
We have refrained from trying to "score" the surge, for a number of reasons. But Blog of the Week Jules Crittenden has a great roundup of the news from Iraq, and it's mostly good:
<<< Reuters loads us up on the Good News out of Iraq: too many al-Qaeda dead to count in a village in Anbar, where Iraqi security forces just kept killing them all day. US and Iraqi forces raiding into Sadr City, just messing around right now, a death squad leader here, a death squad leader there, gearing up for the big push. And the Iraqi Foreign Minister says 1,000 former Iraqi Army officers are coming back, a "sign of reconciliation."
It's gotta be good news when it gets so quiet in Baghdad they are forced to admit it and make news out of it. >>>
As this Associated Press article acknowledges, civilian killings in Baghdad are way down:
<<< The Baghdad security operation has been under way less than three weeks, but it has already registered a success: a sharp drop in the number of bullet-riddled bodies found in the streets - victims of sectarian death squads.
The number of bodies found so far this month in Baghdad - most of them shot and showing signs of torture - has dropped by nearly 50 percent to 494 as of Monday night, compared with 954 in January and 1,222 in December, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press. >>>
Many questions remain, but it seems fair to say, so far, so good.
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