Ho Hum. Nothing Happening In Fallujah.

Fallujah was once the hotspot of anti-American violence in Iraq. You've not heard much about it on the news lately because it's been pacified. Good news is no news to the anti-Bush press though.

Since Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw aren't about to tell us what's going on, Brenden Miniter takes up the burden.

"In speaking with Col. Coleman it quickly became clear that many of the images of the war that trickle back through the media and reports of "cutting deals" with insurgents are often out of context. This is a sentiment Navy Secretary Gordon England also sounded last week in a speech over lunch at the National Press Club. Before taking over in Fallujah, the Marines identified 28 individuals who were leading the insurgency in and around Fallujah. To date the Marines have killed or captured 27 of them, he said. The coalition is clearly winning."

Read the whole thing. It's genuine cause for optimism, which is why you'll not learn this on al-CNN.