If you haven’t seen Mark Steyn’s One Year On article, go check it out. He compares his predictions from a year ago with those of the Progressives, ending with this:
ONE YEAR ON: Iraq’s provisional constitution is the most progressive in the Arab world. Business is booming. Oil production is up. The historic marshlands of southern Iraq, environmentally devastated by Saddam, are being restored. In February, attacks on coalition forces fell to the lowest level since the liberation. Attacks on the oil pipelines have fallen by 75% since the autumn. In a BBC poll, some 60% of Iraqis say their lives are much better or somewhat better than a year ago; under 20% say they’re worse. Seventy per cent expect their lives to be better still a year from now, and only five per cent say worse. Eighty per cent of the country is pleasant and civilised, and the Sunni Triangle will follow. Not a bad year’s work.
That’s what we call a Happy Ending.
It is time for those who opposed the war to admit that our casualties are extremely light and less than could reasonably have been expected, that cooperation within Iraq is excellent, that the resistance is a dwindling minority, and that Iraq is better off than it has been in decades, and continually improving by leaps and bounds.
Anyone who cannot admit that all of this is true–which it all indisputably is–should be dismissed as a fool or a blind partisan so far as I’m concerned.