Michael Yon writes from the Rashid district of Baghdad. There are still dangers but the progess is remarkable.
Somebody please tell the hapless folks at McClatchy's Baghdad bureau. Right now on McClatchy's Iraq web site: an article on Condi Rice ordering more oversight of private contractors (translation: "Blackwater").
(What is the point of having a Baghdad bureau if you can't inform your readers what is happening in the war?)