Everyone can supply their own interpretation to a news story
Opinions may differ.
Mayer (who I usually find pretty... ahhh, why provoke the guy?) apparantly found something uplifting: Iraqi's now excercising new rights. Don thought it meant that there are serious problems in Iraq that will degenerate. Others might draw other conclusions from the same set of facts.
To me, it seems like a news story that should be covered. I find the part about Sunni and Shia marching together without killing each other, really encouraging.
If you partake of news sources that don't think it's appropriate to cover protests in post-war Iraq, then I gotta wonder why.