Has the war in Iraq been won ?

....From The Wall St Journal...Gen. Keane wants to make sure people understand why the surge worked. "I have a theory" about the unexpectedly fast turnaround, he says. "Whether they be Sunni, Shia or Kurd, anyone who was being touched by that war after four years was fed up with it. And I think once a solution was being provided, once they saw the Americans were truly willing to take risks and die to protect their women and children and their way of life, they decided one, to protect the Americans, and two, to turn in the enemies that were around them who were intimidating and terrorizing them; that gave them the courage to do it."
more ...here...

Aborigines,whale whisperers...

...and a baby whale called Colin...

HOW easily are we fooled by people dreaming up oppressive new Aboriginal "traditions"?
Answer: even a sick young whale like Collette is more sceptical than the average reporter.
Collette is the abandoned calf, or was, found listlessly drifting among the boats of Pittwater last month.
Every New Age wailer in Sydney was soon by her sickly side, sobbing, holding out buckets of milk, or crooning odes to a mammal then known, confusingly, as Colin...more
...and again from Andrew Bolt, Winning the War in Iraq...here