Is Iraq showing life -- or is the 'corpse' too far gone?

Tom Engelhardt takes a frank look behind the media's newly-proclaimed "success" in Iraq: "The whole discussion of, and argument about, 'success' in Iraq is, in fact, obscene. Given what has already happened to that country -- and will continue to happen as long as the U.S. remains an occupying power there -- the very category of 'success' is an obscenity. If violence actually does stay down there, that may be a modest godsend for Iraqis, but it can hardly be considered a sign of American 'success.'"
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174882