It’s been a while since we’ve heard about Iraq.  And that’s for good reason, as far as the media’s concerned – who wants to hear about how boringly peaceful the country is compared to a few years ago?  Back in November of last year I wrote “5 Reasons We’re Winning the War in Iraq” and now, it seems, would be a better time to say “Mission Accomplished.”

Why?  Because as you’ve probably heard by now, the U.S. is handing the Anbar province over.

On Monday, U.S. commanders formally returned responsibility for keeping order in Anbar Province, once the heartland of the Sunni insurgency, to the Iraqi Army and police. The ceremony, including a parade on a freshly paved street, capped one of the most significant turnabouts in the country since the war began five and a half years ago.

Over the past two years, the number of insurgent attacks against Iraqis and Americans has dropped by more than 90 percent. Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia has been severely degraded, if not crushed altogether, in large part because many local Sunnis, including former insurgents, have taken up arms against it.

I’m wondering when I will have to retire my “War in Iraq” category here on BPN.

Whether the media is liberal or just sensationalist, I can’t say, but I can’t help but feel like this amazing story – that the war is going so well that even Republicans will be pulling our troops out – is getting totally buried.

What are our stories today?  Sarah Palin looking like Tina Fey.

Which, by the way, I find stupid.  Just because they’re both brunettes with glasses, they have to get compared.  If Tina Fey walked into the room, would you have any trouble discerning that it wasn’t Sarah Palin?

Ah, see, I just got caught in that story too. And, I just realized my last post in the “War in Iraq” category was in April.

I guess this is a sensationalist blog.  Dang.