BG, commenter at ITM posted a link to this article, I had to go see it for myself!

"The distinguished British journalist William Shawcross has just returned from Iraq. He was a famous critic of the Vietnam War but he views the Iraq War as just and winnable. In fact, he reports that things are going far better there than either the British or the American press has reported. An Iraqi army is coming together. It is, as Shawcross says, determined "to defend Iraq — the whole of Iraq — against terrorist destruction." Given Sen. Biden's fascination with all things British, perhaps he will quote Shawcross on the Senate floor. You might recall the Senator's 1988 run for the Democratic presidential nomination when he got caught plagiarizing from a speech by British Labour Party leader Neal Kinnock.

A growing number of Democrats are demonstrating Sen. Biden's shameless opportunism. An unedifying specimen of it is their easily provoked calls for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld arrived at the Pentagon for his second stint as secretary of defense (he also held the post during the Ford administration) charged to reform the military. Still organized to fight a Cold War, it had to be reorganized for future wars. It had to be brought into line with the Goldwater-Nichols Reauthorization Act of 1986, calling for cooperation among the services and an end to inter-service duplication. Rumsfeld transformed this legislation into Pentagon doctrine. "He did that in spades," Jed Babbin, the Pentagon watcher, remarks. Then came the war in Iraq. Never before have the armed services operated in such smooth combinations so agilely. Rumsfeld was vindicated."

What's so surprising?  It's CNN!  Echoing BG's post, thumbs UP...WAY UP!  While you're at it, go check out the good news from Omar.  Another tidbit of good news; Ali at Free Iraqi is posting again!  Then there's this!  It just keeps on coming!  The donks have got to be eating their nails off in frustration! 

"Members of the Sunni insurgency have been reaching out to the new Iraqi government, giving U.S. military commanders opportunities to forge communications with the resistance groups, the top American commander in Iraq said Thursday. "