I'm Shocked - Really.

As I was checking Drudge tonight I was floored when I saw this headline:

Couric: 'Real Progress' In Iraq

I'm not often shocked by the headlines I read - often sickened, but rarely shocked. This one really got me. I knew Katie was headed over to Iraq, but just never thought that she would admit that real progress had been made. On top of that she said some other things that I just didn't expect out of the mouths of anyone in the media with the exception of a couple of folks over at Fox News.

Here are some excerpts from the article:

(CBS) BAGHDAD, Iraq One week before Gen. David Petraeus is expected to give his report on U.S. progress in Iraq, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric says she has already seen dramatic improvements in the country.

"We hear so much about things going bad, but real progress has been made there in terms of security and stability," Couric said Tuesday. "I mean, obviously, infrastructure problems abound, but Sunnis and U.S. forces are working together. They banded together because they had a common enemy: al Qaeda."

Now Fallujah is "considered a real role model of something working right in Iraq," Couric said.

Security and stability have improved in Iraq, but basic services remain in disrepair.

"I think everyone I talk to agrees that restoring basic services is really an imperative step in bringing stability and some kind of sense of society to Iraq," Couric said.

Now, what I am really wondering about is whether she will be attacked like all of the other folks who have truthfully reported that the President's troop build up plan actually worked. I guess Michelle Malkin called it right in not giving her a hard time when she told everyone that she was going over there. Even though I didn't slam her, I really didn't expect this kind of report from her in the news. Wow. I hope this is a trend that continues. Truth in reporting, weird!