LA Times Gets It Right On This One

Who says the LA Times can't get the story straight every now and then?

Watch this really good news from Iraq posted today at the LATimes.com World News page titled, Iraq Breaks Impasse on Government, by Times staff writers Borzou Daragahi and Bruce Wallace. Some quotes:

BAGHDAD — With a hint of hope and more than a bit of relief, Iraq's parliament finally met Saturday to endorse a deal among rival factions to name a prime minister and get the first permanent government of the post-Saddam Hussein era off the ground.

…266 legislators who met in a sweltering Baghdad convention center ended a four-month wait that followed national elections in December. …distributed top political jobs, … among Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish parties.

Kinda makes one think, what happened to the MSM's pronouncements just weeks ago that Iraq was "on the brink" of a civil war? Really makes one wary whenever the MSM uses terms like "on the brink". Doesn't it grab you more like the MSM's wishful thinking rather than news?

Of course, no one is discounting Iraq's hundreds of years of sectarian and religious culture compounded by distortion and exploitation. No one is dreaming that Iraq will suddenly emerge as the glowing bastion of democracy in the Middle East when the sun rises tomorrow.

Still, when one considers what these democratically elected leaders have done, thankless as it is, they do appear to be participating more as statesmen rather than opportunistic politicians.

Go to Iraq The Model blog for a step-by-step account of the history-making parliamentary session.

Let's hope the Iraqi leaders give the Iraqi people, who long for freeedom, the government that they need. The brave---and voting---Iraqi people deserve no less.

Far too long has Iraq lived in an insane obsession with death. It's time to look ahead at life.

As to the LA Times, kudos on a well-written piece.