More good news from Iraq. Reliable polling shows that nine out of ten Iraqi women, who represent one half of the country's 25 million, are hopeful about their future. (Link from IP.) And even though it's been out for nearly a week, take ten or fifteen minutes to read Austin Bay's "The Millenium War," a short essay that echoes thoughts of my own on the war I feel more comfortable calling the "War for Freedom."
NEAR EAST FASCISTS, PLAIN AND SIMPLE: Tell me the Allies aren't fighting against regional and international terrorists:
[I]in Ramadi, soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, currently assigned to the 1st Marine Division, discovered 48 passports, 40 blank ID cards, 500,000 Iraqi dinar and $11,000 in one vehicle at a checkpoint.
This weekend, American forces took at least 28 confirmed and suspected off Iraq's streets — from Mosul to Tikrit to the whole of Al Anbar Province. From whencesoever they come, down they go.
A FIRST: Granted, referenced terrorists are placed in scare quotes and Fox News is likely responsible for prominence, but the Associated Press reported Allied successes.