The International Monetary Fund forecasts GDP growth in Iraq to be above 11.5% for 2011.  Never forget that progressives called Iraq a lost cause.  Remember Ted Kennedy's 'Second Vietnam' comment? Remember when Joe Biden; Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi were ready to throw the Iraqi democrats to the islamo-fascist dogs?  For over two years, there has  ONLY been GOOD news coming out of Iraq after 'The Surge' worked.  It is time to start re-litigating every progressive narrative ever presented because progressives are wrong about almost everything.  Never forget that far-left progressives were wrong to use American soldiers and the Iraq war as a domestic political message in 2006.  Progressivism is corrupt.  Iraq is political war and political war is media war.  Progressives and the far-left media chose the other side, the loosing side, the wrong side, during the Iraq war.  Pelosi and Reid would not fight for freedom.  George Bush's 'Surge' worked.  Progressives maliciously used American soldiers fighting in Iraq as a political message in the 2006 election cycle.  These totalitarian progressives had a malignant and malicious stake in the outcome the Iraq war.  The Iraqi democrats were fighting to create freedom and progressives in America wanted helicopters on the U.S. Embassy roof and a second 'far-left killing fields' this time not in Cambodia but in Baghdad.   

According to the Wall Street Journal:

“Violence in Iraq is now mostly a criminal matter. Over the past two years, the country has suffered fewer than 40% of the deaths by violence that Mexico has. Iraqi fatalities are now well below the levels seen during the quiet months immediately following the U.S invasion in 2003. A visit to Baghdad or Basra today isn't intimidating for businessmen accustomed to Lagos or Rio de Janeiro.  Iraq, the former bully-boy of the Arab neighborhood, has become its only functional democracy. What may be the world's richest resource economy, once the closed shop of a murderous clique, is today wide open for business.”