This is just outstanding news. Especially the news about Samarra. It was a true rebel strongpoint that we've been chipping away at for months. And now it crumbled without a whimper. Its defeat will make any action we take in Fallujah that much easier. And in the meantime, we continue to target key points within Fallujah that will shape it for its eventual collapse. While the rebels run around building bunkers, we watch and destroy them when it hurts them the most.
Fruits of politics which were so maligned prior to the June handover.
Who knows what Allawi will become, but you can just feel his presence. And so do the terrorists and so do the Iranians.
This all goes so, so far. My favorite indication of progress in Iraq is the brownouts caused by the sudden surfeit of air conditioners.