LONDON -- It is getting ever more difficult to assess what is actually happening in Iraq.
Inevitably the media tend to give footage to the bombs, the assassinations and the unending attacks on American and other coalition soldiers. The impression is therefore of a country descending into chaotic violence instead of emerging into the promised liberty.
In reality large parts of Iraq are at peace, with schools open, hospital operating and public services working at better levels than they did under Saddam Hussein's despotic regime.