Trying to make sense of those posts. May make a bit.
If the point is that vast areas of Iraq don't have fighting and bombing, that's true.
If the point is that the vast majority of Iraqis aren't planting bombs, that's true.
If the point is that life is going on in Iraq, that's also true.
It WWII the conflict was in narrow bands or isolated pockets. At any one time most of any of the countries weren't involved, and life was going on. Same with Vietnam, with Korea, etc.
A column such as those could be written about anywhere.
And would be accurate.
Which wouldn't change the fact that there was a war on.
However, I wonder how they can have it both ways. Things are great, and there is a need for 140,000 armed Americans and $300 billion American dollars.
Arf