I know that good news about Iraq doesn't seem to be very popular right now, particularly in the major media, but Glenn has a couple letters that are encouraging, about Najaf and Al-Sadr, and Fallujah.

On the other hand, what do they know?

They're only the people who are actually there on the ground, interacting with the Iraqis in ways both violent and kind, as appropriate, every day. They don't have the benefit of journalism degrees and elite cocktail parties from which to get their news and reinforce their anti-Bush opinions.

And their opinion should sway me more than, say, Riverbend?

No, but you shouldn't ignore it, either. Everyone has their own perspective, but we've been getting far too much of the negative one, because it's important to much of the media, here and abroad, to have a regime change in Washington, above all else (including the truth).