President Bush spoke on Wednesday:

I want to share with you how two Iraqi bloggers — they have bloggers in Baghdad, just like we’ve got here — (laughter) — “Displaced families are returning home, marketplaces are seeing more activity, stores that were long shuttered are now reopening. We feel safer about moving in the city now. Our people want to see this effort succeed. We hope the governments in Baghdad and America do not lose their resolve.”

These bloggers, those to whom the President referred, are Mohammed and Omar Fadhil of Iraq the Model. They had an Op/Ed printed in the Wall Street Journal earlier this month:

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[A]fter only a couple weeks we can feel, despite the continuing violence, that much has been accomplished. Many Baghdadis feel hopeful again about the future, and the fear of civil war is slowly being replaced by optimism that peace might one day return to this city. This change in mood is something huge by itself.

No, things are not wonderful in Baghdad. Hardly, and we’re not told that they are. But Mohammed make an interest point at their blog:

I would like to make clear one point to bloggers like dailykos and some MSM supported blogs who seem so upset for some reason that the voice of some Iraqis is being heard.
I’ve seen some of them publish stories full of lies and accusations they can’t support and I think it’s pathetic to throw the “you’re a sold-out propaganda” accusation at people just because they don’t share the same point of view…This only reflects their lack of knowledge and the bankruptcy of ideas they suffer.

We speak the language of facts, supported by images and statistics and more important, we live here while they don’t. We write about the good days as well as the bad days in Iraq’s journey to a better future.
You don’t even have to search in this blog’s archives, just scroll down this page and you’ll see both good and bad news—we witness an explosion and we write about it and we see progress and we write about it.
If they can’t see that it’s their problem, not ours.

I invite them to come visit my town, see what I see, compare it with what I write and then they can say whatever they like.

Now excuse me, it’s Thursday and I have barbeque and cold beers waiting for me.

Their story doesn’t fit the MSM mold, and it’s that mold which must be fit in order to ensure an extended Democratic majority in Congress and a President Hillary/Obama/Breck dude.