CELEBRATING Christmas in Baghdad.

UPDATE: Rand Simberg emails: “Now that Hope’n’Change are upon us, it’s all right to report good news from Iraq. Also, the number of homeless (or at least the reporting thereof) will decline precipitously, even though we’re in a recession. There are only homeless and failed wars during Republican administrations.”

MORE: Reader Michael Hankamer writes: “Odd, isn’t it? I’m in Baghdad, at Camp Victory, and I read about this on CNN.com via a blog post from you. We live in interesting times ….” Indeed.