Mohammed serves his own round of good news from Iraq, the kind the left sniffs at, including this powerful anecdote of former dictatorship meeting former dictatorship:

The Japanese invited some doctors and administrative health officials to visit Japan and you can imagine the reaction and impressions those Iraqis showed when the returned from Japan; they were in a state of shock from the civilization out there and they came back with hope, dreams and frustration too; we’ve got a long way to walk and a lot of work to do before we can catch up with the civilized world.

And you will, Mohammed. Read the rest.