Iraqis are returning to Iraq from their exile.

What do they know that Harry Reid doesn’t? He must be very disappointed.

[Update a little later]

This isn’t exactly hot off the press (it was posted at the end of August) but David Kilcullen, one of General Petraeus’ advisors, provides a good (but long) description of what was going on in Iraq at that time, that explains much of what we’re seeing today.

[Update later morning]

Ralph Peters: What went right in Iraq.