Major Iraq War Victories You Won't Hear from the Liberal Press

[Updated: 03-Sep-08 with information on and link to Financial Times article.]

The liberal media has not reported some major victories in Iraq over the last two years. It is absolutely shameful that they completely ignored these victories and, instead, continue to report nothing but failures. Here is a news flash you won't hear from them:

Eleven of the eighteen Iraqi provinces are now under local (i.e., not U.S.) control

These are now self-governing regions. The liberal media will not tell you this, but it is a fact (i.e., news). The large majority of Iraq is now under direct local control. This transfer of control began in mid 2006, at the height of the mid-term elections that saw Democrats and the liberal media regain control of Congress on the strength of their unrelenting reporting on “the failed Iraq War.” Additionally, the Financial Times now reports that U.S. troops may leave Baghdad by next summer.

The dark green shaded regions in this map highlight the Iraqi provinces that are now under Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC).

1. Baghdad
2. Salahad Din
3. Diyala
4. Wasit
5. Maysan - Under PIC since April 2007
6. Al-Basrah - Under PIC since December 2007
7. DhiQar - Under PIC since September 2006
8. Al-Muthanna - Under PIC since July 13, 2006
9. Al-Qadisiyah - Under PIC since July 2008
10. Babil
11. Karbala‘ - Under PIC since October 2007
12. An-Najaf - Under PIC since December 2006
13. Al-Anbar - Now under PIC in September 2008
14. Ninawa
15. Dahuk - Under PIC since May 2007
16. Arbil (Erbil) - Under PIC since May 2007
17. At Ta’mim
18. As-Sulaymaniyah - Under PIC since May 2007

This is news that the liberal media and the Democrats should include with every body count, and every report of a homicide bombing and IED explosion because it is an essential truth of the story. Then again, liberals are not overly concerned with the truth.

(The map is a modified version of this map from the Wikimedia Commons, modified under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Dates and province names from the Provincial Iraqi Control web page.)