Washington Times — Under-reported News from Iraq

Today's Washington Times starts a new series of under-reported stories from Iraq. In today's editorial, the Times notes:

• Primary-school enrollment has jumped 20 percent over the Saddam years, according to the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index.


• Iraq's GDP rebounded by an estimated 50 percent in 2004, according to the IMF, mostly due to increased oil revenues. About one-third of Iraqis are unemployed -- an alarming rate -- but this is significantly better than two years ago, when half or more of Iraqis were unemployed.

I'll be following this series. Remember that one of the running talking points has been that things are worse now than they had been under Saddam.