Check out the news from Iraq. It seems the Marines are pulling back in Anbar:

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Marine commandant said Wednesday that his forces in Iraq's once-volatile western Anbar province can be reduced, as the military moves to hand over control of the region to the Iraqis next week. […]

Conway said Marines serving in Anbar told him, "There aren't a whole heck of a lot of bad guys there left to fight." Driving through the once-dangerous cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, he said, "Our vehicles seemed to go largely unnoticed as there was much construction and rebuilding taking place."

Meanwhile, in Najaf business is booming:

NAJAF, Iraq - The city's first airport is weeks away from opening, but already a bigger one is talked about. Land prices are soaring. Merchants say they don't remember business ever being so good. […]

The locals are happy to see foreign visitors returning, particularly big-spending Arabs from the Persian Gulf.
"Everyone is doing good business," gold jeweler Aitan Abdul-Hussein said after he served two Iraqi women in black flowing abaya robes in his tiny shop. "I sell a kilogram of gold every day. That used to be my monthly average a year ago."

Wow, that’s great! Way to go, America! After reading those articles, I went over to the New York Times website to see what “all the news that’s fit to print” was saying. Predictably, this was the only article on the current page, detailing an incident from April of last year.That’s right, The Times, determined to report nothing but bad news for America, digs back 16 months to report an incident of misconduct.