Greetings:
Successes are occurring, and accruing, in Iraq. Al Qaeda is still a powerful enemy, but they cannot be happy with their Iraqi franchise this summer.
Readers of my dispatches have gotten first hand reports of the kinds of positive indicators that General David Petraeus described in his progress report.
The atmosphere is changing in Iraq and I've been posting dispatches and videos that illustrate just how profound this change is in some cases.
I was the first to say Iraq was in civil war, and many readers were angry to hear me say it. Well, I'll be the first to say that I predict some sort of milestone for the war in Iraq will occur early in the next year. It's dangerous to predict like this, but something fundamental has changed in Iraq.
There is one important qualifier: this will only happen if General David Petraeus is supported by our elected officials to implement his proposed plan, without meddling from those same elected officials. Oversight and accountability are not the same thing as backseat driving after siphoning out half of the gas tank.
Ladies and gentlemen if you are not reading Michael Yon then you are cheating yourself out of one of the prime sources of news out of Iraq on the War on Terror.
Michael like most of the great bloggers reporting on the progress and setbacks is not there on the dime of a major newspaper or media outlet. Rather he is there completely on his own and is reader supported. So if you visit Michael's site, and you like what you read there, drop him a couple bucks and help him stay even longer.
We need the news stories he is reporting because they are unbiased and fair, and more importantly because they reflect the actual truth on the ground. Michael does not sugar coat anything, he gives us it with both barrels, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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