Because right now it’s Al Qaeda in Iraq doing the “bleeding.” Both figuratively and literally.

There was a time, not so long ago, when the only news out of Iraq was bad news. Good news, if there was any the mainstream media thought necessary to report, would be tucked into the inside pages of the newspaper. What’s that old newspaper saying? If it bleeds it leads? Well, now it’s AQI that seems to be doing the newsworthy bleeding.

USA Today started it with a story about how al-Qaeda in Iraq was working hard to salvage its damaged image. WaPo followed with a report on the sorry state of the AQI terrorist. Today WaPo has a front page story based on the writings of a killer, a document that reflects the decline of AQI. The author of the sad diary, Abu Tariq, lists the woes of the gang.

“Over 16 pages,” writes WaPo, the al-Qaeda in Iraq leader detailed the organization’s demise in his sector. He once had 600 men, but now his force was down to 20 or fewer, he wrote.”

Meanwhile, not one of the Democrat candidates for President has been willing to acknowledge the success we’ve had in Iraq or back down from policies that would force us to give up and lose the war.