Tell your neighbors: the increasingly united Iraqi government is moving from victory to victory over al Qaida and its allies. There will be elections again this December (four years after the successful ones of 2004) and most likely a new mandate. Sunnis no longer protest unfair sectarian treatment by the government and Shiites are cooperating, for the most part, in shutting down the Sadr militia (which, in turn, now lacks the excuse that it is only defending its people from the Sunnis).
The report from Iraq the Model is several days old (I missed it), but it makes several points you probably won't see in the MSM. Such as: the government's own ministers went to Mosul to help lead the campaign to clean out al Qaida. Such as: 1,100 suspects arrested--the number is big and so is the fact they were arrested, not ousted in fighting. (Al Qaida is having a hard time mounting a fight any more.) And again: the "infant Iraqi air force" could be relied upon to provide "valuable live imagery" for the ground forces. Did you even know that the Iraqi air force was being rebuilt? This is very significant.
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