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Reid is in the uncomfortable position of attempting to turn a silk purse into a sow's ear. Every single positive aspect of this article is countered by at least two qualifiers. The notion that the American public has somehow turned its attention away from Iraq is pretty funny coming from a journalist. Now let's see, did the American public stop reading the stories or did somebody - can't imagine who - stop printing them?

Most of the root causes of the war — notably the power struggle between Sunnis and Shiites_ remain unresolved.

Excuse me? The Sunni/Shi'a struggle was a root cause of the war? Gosh, I thought it might have been Saddam marching into Kuwait or something silly like that. Not that there was no Sunni/Shi'a conflict going on, mostly as the former shoveled the latter into mass graves, imprisoned their leaders, subjected their women to rape rooms, and generally made Genghis Kahn look like the lead character in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. The fact that there hasn't been an even larger Shi'a/Sunni bloodletting in revenge is one of the most amazing, laudable, and least celebrated achievements of U.S. policy there. A lot of people, including myself, thought it was inevitable and unstoppable.

But it is amusing to see the AP dredging up the Baghdad police blotter to convince its readers that signs of doom are the reality and signs of improvement only an evanescent illusion. The opposite is true. If at this point its editors can't admit that they were wrong it is high time for new editors.

"Reid is in the uncomfortable position of attempting to turn a silk purse into a sow's ear. Every single positive aspect of this article is countered by at least two qualifiers."

Reid is a POS and this is SOP for him. For too long he has been the leading cheerleader for the anti-war left, revelled in the death of US Soldiers and allies, rehashing prior deaths when there were no new ones. All to support the negative meme. I spit on he and his dishonest ilk...