According to people who live there or where there, it is everything else than a success now:
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
http://www.back-to-iraq.com/
I would love to see a reliable source for all this claims in the parent (yeah, yeah, you won't name it - a pity. So it is only a random list of things which sound like coming the WH-PR-machine). Some of them have been shown to be less than honest already (like the Iraqi Battallion, which already lost half its members (ARVN anyone?), the schools which are open (they were since day one after Saddam left - without the help of the Occupation force), but unusable, the power plants which bring energy, but not enough to even light up Baghdad half the day, ect. Others of them are true, but tell only the half of the story or are things which are done without any help of the Occupation force. Others were true under Saddam too (open schools and clinics, offices etc), others are plain wrong (Iraqis live not in terror? How do you call the terrorist attacks and the actions by Occupation soldiers like searching homes and deporting people?; Freedom of press? Ask Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabia or Journalists who were detained and hindered by GIs...)
The last points (Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Quatar) have nothing to do with Iraq itself. Two of this countries are even allies of the US despite their shortcomings in human rights and democracy.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
http://www.back-to-iraq.com/
I would love to see a reliable source for all this claims in the parent (yeah, yeah, you won't name it - a pity. So it is only a random list of things which sound like coming the WH-PR-machine). Some of them have been shown to be less than honest already (like the Iraqi Battallion, which already lost half its members (ARVN anyone?), the schools which are open (they were since day one after Saddam left - without the help of the Occupation force), but unusable, the power plants which bring energy, but not enough to even light up Baghdad half the day, ect. Others of them are true, but tell only the half of the story or are things which are done without any help of the Occupation force. Others were true under Saddam too (open schools and clinics, offices etc), others are plain wrong (Iraqis live not in terror? How do you call the terrorist attacks and the actions by Occupation soldiers like searching homes and deporting people?; Freedom of press? Ask Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabia or Journalists who were detained and hindered by GIs...)
The last points (Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Quatar) have nothing to do with Iraq itself. Two of this countries are even allies of the US despite their shortcomings in human rights and democracy.