I don?t know about you, but I?m tired of the steady drumbeat of bad news and defeatism from Iraq. The truth of the matter is that this has never been justified, and it?s certainly not justified this week.

On Tuesday the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting the end of the occupation of Iraq on June 30, transferring sovereignty to the Iraqi interim government, and authorizing the U.S.role providing security?a huge victory. This vote came on the heels of Monday?s announcement that nine of the independent Iraqi militias agreed to disband. This is good news, but just part of a pattern of good news that simply hasn?t been prominently reported.

The press coverage of Iraq reminds me of when I was a kid during World War II. The Allied campaign in Italy, for example, was going off the track, and everybody was wringing their hands that we were losing the war. And after D-Day, sixty years ago this month, American forces were bogged down at the Battle of the Bulge during the winter of 1944. Remember the American general?s famous response when the Nazis told him to surrender? One word: ?Nuts.? Sure, things were uncertain and messy, and there was plenty of talk about the gloomy state of the war.

The fact is, you see, that uncertainty and mess are unavoidable elements of war, but if that?s all you hear, you begin to think the sky is falling. And that?s what has been happening in Iraq. But as Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard writes, ?To share the Iraq-is-lost sentiment, one must ignore a spate of good news.?