Michael Totten's latest report from Baghdad is definitely worth a read:

Everyone was friendly. No one shot at us or even looked at us funny. Infrastructure problems, not security, were the biggest concerns at the moment. I felt like I was in Iraqi Kurdistan – where the war is already over – not in Baghdad.

He was quite blunt about reporting how bad things were in 2005, so I take his positive reports quite seriously. We may actually pull this off.