Meanwhile, Back in the Real World…

…American troops pass out food and medicine to Iraqis, including this little girl:

And the new Iraqi council held its first meeting; Saddamites no doubt would have disrupted it if they could have, but they didn’t. The Boston Globe reports that residents of Baghdad “gathered around televisions and radios” to listen to the proceedings. “I feel that Iraq has started back from zero,” one Iraqi said. ”We have wasted 75 years waiting to taste freedom.”
But don’t expect any break in the relentless negativity of American press coverage.