[Allegra]

Your posts help me keep perspective when I hear the chorus put up by the MSM.

It's getting close to the point where the MSM isn't going to be able to conceal the rampant progress that has been made here much longer.

Oh, they still have their IED and VBIED stories so that they can keep up their hyperbolic, distorted reporting, but even those are dwindling. And the Iraqi forces are improving every day and getting a better hold on this. Plus, once the government gets sorted out, I believe we're going to see an even bigger reduction in that terrorism cr@p.

[lemura]

We'll know it's over when economic activity picks up. The thing about capitalism (whether official or black market) is that it isn't linear - it's exponential.

Once the unspoken sense that things are getting under control becomes dominant, millions of individuals making private decisions regarding business/job opportunities will explode in the marketplace.

We can already see it in the number of vehicles on the streets of Baghdad; the next sign will be building activity.

[elfman2]

"It's getting close to the point where the MSM isn't going to be able to conceal the rampant progress that has been made here much longer. "

They’re probably holding out for something on the Democrat side to attribute it to, like the removal of a Republican Senate majority, an anti-war speech by Hillary or something preposterous like that.