The Last 24 Hours -

The Last 24 Hours - It starts as a fisking "of a headline" in the Guardian - but blog Buzz Machine sums up a pretty incredible, if underreported, 24 hours in this conflict:

he Guardian's daily update tries to make it look as if we're losing. Getaloada the headline:

Small successes outweighed
Confusion, looting and tension about Syria overshadow the few achievements of this war

It's bad when you can fisk a headline.
Well, let's see. We took Tikrit, the last major city in Iraq. Saddam is in control of nothing. I would say that is the mark of victory.
Our POWs were free. Let's say that again: Our POWs were free.
The buses are running again in Baghdad as even al-Jazeera admits that order is returning.
Syria is not answering our scolds with taunts; it is acting like a dog that's under control.
And we have arranged a meeting of Iraqi leaders this week to start creating Iraq's first democratic government.
And all that happened in the last 24 hours. Looks like a pretty damned good day to me.

One wonders what the likes of the Guardian really expect.