I was scanning through Instapundit’s RSS feed and saw a story that pointed to a blog containing a list of all the good things that we’ve done in Iraq since the war. It’s an interesting list which I’m sure will provoke discussion if a few blogs pick up on it.

The list uses a few blogs created by Iraqis in Baghdad that are very pro-coalition. I’ll link to them here, since they’re fascinating reads regardless of your perspective on the war:

There are more linked from those sites, but those are the three that I read. They’re very optimistic and upbeat about the results of the war. It’s interesting to contrast the stories coming from these guys versus the now defunct View From Baghdad (written by an American war supporter in Baghdad). They’re also all doctors or university educated folks living in Baghdad. I point this out because it feels like talking to a group of Delhi or Mumbai elites about what’s going on in the villages of Rajastan. At least, that’s how it feels to me reading this.

This isn’t surprising, though, considering that getting a computer and Internet access is probably not something most people in Iraq are going to be able to afford. I wish we had more blogs out there written by folks on the ground in Baghdad. Information, that’s all I ask for. :)

Anyway, give it a read. Should make you feel a little better about things in Iraq and the results of our adventure there, since the news media over here are pretty well focused on the big stories of Abu Ghraib and force deployments but not the mundane.

PS: one of the blogs above has a unique domain name. It uses eNom.com as its registrar and has the WHOIS information obfuscated by some company called Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc. Their website is a default “new domain” page. Weird stuff and kind of shady. ICANN guidelines say that the contact information needs to be legit and direct, and this seems odd (though I guess you can probably get in contact with the owner of the domain via the obfuscated addresses… it just hides the real identity of who owns the domain records).