The Washington Times' Rowan Scarborough reports that senior Pentagon officials think Iraq is turning the corner:
"This is still a tough fight. We don't want anyone to think that it is not," said retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a military analyst who strongly supports Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. "But the momentum is in our direction."
[. . .]A military source in Iraq declined to give raw number of attacks, but said, "There has been a decided downward trend in the number and lethality of attacks since the January 30 elections."
A Pentagon official said the more that intelligence agencies analyze the insurgency, the clearer it becomes that a large part is criminal, not nationalistic.
It's interesting that with things looking up in Iraq there isn't a flurry of positive Iraq stories in the main stream media, just fewer stories.
UPDATE: At PowerLine, Hindrocket posts:
None of this is news to readers of this site and others in the blogosphere. But our success in Iraq, when it is finally acknowledged, will likely be puzzling to many who rely on mainstream media sources and have heard little about the positive developments that have occurred there over the past year.
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