Finding this stuff takes some scraping. The mainstream media, with the sole goal right now of destroying George W. Bush, spikes this stuff.

I have found a lot of it on various blog sites, including a few by military men stationed in Iraq. Most news articles with positive viewpoints are from small-town newspapers who print letters from Iraq and stories by soldiers returning.

The Centcom.mil website is not a bad source for what's going on as well, and DOD press conferences often have this kind of information, which never makes it into the New York Times.

The objective of Bush's opponents is quite clear: Vietnamize the war in Iraq. The fact that they can actually come close to doing this after less than six months since the beginning of combat is a testament to their ability to warp reality. A similar snowjob is being done on the economy, or maybe you had noticed that the only statistic to make it into the headlines any more is the employment rate.