Suddenly, roses bloom beneath our feet in Iraq...

It's as if there was never any bad news to report in Iraq, now that the Democrats are in power.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. soldiers, automatic rifles buckled to their body armor, filed into a community center in a dangerous Shiite neighborhood of north Baghdad Saturday and for a few hours became social workers, cops on the beat and referees between feuding tribesmen.

Tea was passed around, notes were taken, local sheiks spoke in wise tones, heads nodded vigorously in agreement and mundane problems such as garbage collection and distributing electricity generators were tackled.

Maj. Michael Fazio, 36, from Warwick, N.Y., pulled out a cheat sheet — photocopied snapshots labeled with long tribal names that he tried to match with faces in the room.

“This is the battlefield of today,” Fazio said, gesturing at the 200 or assembled — half of them civilians, the rest U.S. and Iraqi military. “At certain levels we didn’t know what we were in for, but we have adapted in our goal of trying to hand over Iraq.”

It's as if nothing had ever been wrong, and I'm sure the MSM has just been itching to hand the credit to the Democrats.

Yet, in other news...

Al-Qaida in Iraq says it has 12,000 fighters
Tape cites U.S. elections, vow made to blow up White House

“The American people have put their feet on the right path by ... realizing their president’s betrayal in supporting Israel,” the terror leader said. “So they voted for something reasonable in the last elections.”...

“I swear by God we shall not rest from jihad until we ... blow up the filthiest house known as the White House,” he added.

Confirming, of course, that our enemies are emboldened by the prospect of weak-in-the-knees liberals muddying up the waters. Hmm, maybe if we can hold off this supposed White House attack for 2 years, voting for Hillary in '08 isn't such a bad idea after all.