Encouraging News In The View of 'The Australian'

Having time on my hands allows me to give the broadsheets a good going over. The editorial of the Australian (21 June) caught my eye.

Headed "Douglas Wood tells it straight," it's a piece that backs up Wood's claim that things are going swimmingly in Iraq. Briefly, it gives a large kick into all the naysayers who cast doubts on the wonderful progress being made in that country.

They [the negative claims] are par for the course for people [the naysayers] who continue to claim there have been 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths since the invasion by the coalition of the willing, more than a month after a UN report put the number at 24,000.

Only 24,000 deaths? Is that all? What a relief!