Iraq? What War on Terrorism in Iraq?

In a shameless attempt to ignore the amazing resolve and abilities of our armed forces, the mainstream media today, strike that, always completely missed this piece of amazing good news from Iraq.

To sum it all up, there is a little town in Iraq called Tal Afar, and the locals and local religious authorities had had enough of foreign fighters and terrorists hangin' out and causing trouble in their city. The signed a request to the US military to come and get them out.

"The other piece of this that sometimes gets lost is the Iraqi government was very much involved in setting the conditions for success," he said.

[Commanding US General] Casey explained that local sheiks signed statements saying basically: "We've had enough. We ask for the military to come in and clean the terrorists and foreign fighters out of Tal Afar."

This led to support for the mission from the city's civilian population. "That had a huge impact on what we had to deal with with respect to the population of that city," Casey said.

So let's see: The Iraqi government and some people in Iraq decided that terrorists and foreign fighters were bad and that they needed to go. They asked the US military to come and get them, and the US military did. Why wouldn't I see this story reported.... uh... anywhere?