History in Iraq is being written by the losers . . .

This detailed article discusses the hard figures (vs. soft impressions or insinuations) about the progress being made in Iraq--that is, the progress toward establishing a friend to democracy in the Middle East. The bottom line is that negatively slanted reporting (motivated by ignorance, naivete or malice toward Dubya) is perverting the "history" of this war.

Here's a quote from the article:

Everyone knows that the history of war is written by the victors. But the war in Iraq has shattered that truism. In Iraq, history is being written by the losers. Baathist kidnappers and jihadist bombers are planning their operations not to win the war in Iraq, but to win it in America. To that end, they are assessing what American news organizations are willing to cover, and what American reporters are willing to risk. As an immediate result, many of the feeds on the nightly news are coming from Arabic sources that are either non-professional in their journalistic standards or hostile to American policy aims. As a long-term result, the American public is broadly misinformed on a war that Coalition arms and Iraqi democrats are, in fact, winning.