Happy New Year Iraq!!

JUST A LITTLE UPDATE OF SORTS FROM Talisman Gate:

"An Iraqi official source has also confirmed that Sunni-on-Sunni violence has consistently exceeded all other forms of violence during the last two months."

Let me see now. Does that mean that Sunnis have really turned on the Ba'athist and al Qaeda holdouts in their midst? I don't know how else to interpret this, but it sure bodes well for Iraq's success in 2008.

We've been hearing this for some time now from non-MSM sources, no doubt because the MSM doesn't want to admit their narrative has been wrong all this time. Listening to CBC's Sunday Edition on December 30th, one would have to think this is just a stalling tactic and the whole country will revert to violence as soon as the American's pull out. But then, what do you expect from CBC's Sunday Edition program and the old anti-everything-American fart who hosts it. But I digress.

Anyway, no wonder poor old Osama Baby keeps having to lecture the errant ones in Iraq. They've turned against him. Well there's always Pakistan. We do indeed live in interesting times. Now back to the partying.
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Iraqis party like it's 2008

"This will be the year that we take our freedom!” he (the singer who performed at the Palestine ballroom) told Reuters after singing through a boisterous set in front of a packed dancefloor."

Belly dancers also took the stage, and revelers showered a female singer with dinar notes, the Iraqi audience’s ultimate sign of approval.

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Economics student Afir Ali, 21, turned up at the Palestine ballroom in a faux-suede blazer and jeans.

“We thank god. This is a beautiful feeling. We wish we could do this every day,” he said.

“We want to enjoy life. We’ve had enough of violence.”

Here's more.

Iraq Pundit has a great put down of the Washington Post's reportage of the New Years Eve revellers.