War in Iraq: Look for the silver lining

-- Daryl Cagle.
As the war in Iraq enters Year 4, the darned media continue to report bad news. What the hell, everybody knows war is hell. What's the good news?

In an AlterNet column, Will Durst tackles that subject and concludes the article with this list, which he calls the Bright Side to Xenophobic Genocide:

Baghdad University fraternity expulsions way down.

Six billion a month we won't be wasting on pork barrel politics.

Advances in battlefield medical procedures destined to benefit all of mankind.

Due to their renewed dedication to killing each other, the Sunnis and Shiites seem much less interested in targeting Americans these days.

VFW membership rolls are a bull market.

Grisly footage of dead in Iraq diverting attention from that whole Jack Abramoff thing.

Every single car bomb explosion means another opportunity for Detroit fleet sales.

Where tomorrow's stars of the Cadaver Dog World get first class training today.

Senseless secular violence has obviously intensified the hold of the truce in Northern Ireland.

There's a Burning Man Festival every day of the week.

When you're thinking organ donor heaven, we're talking Iraq.

Hey, it could be worse. There could be leeches.

And the final piece of good news coming out of the Iraq… spring has sprung.