ARTICLE: Premier Casting U.S. Withdrawal as Iraq Victory, By STEVEN LEE MYERS and MARC SANTORA, New York Times, June 25, 2009

ARTICLE: Warily Moving Ahead on Oil Contracts, By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, New York Times, June 25, 2009

ARTICLE: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/world/middleeast/26iraq.html?th&emc=th, By ALISSA J. RUBIN and CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, New York Times, June 25, 2009

Withdrawals ALWAYS lead to upticks in violence and bombing, with insurgents claiming "victory."

But the victory is ours and it's real, as evidenced by enough stability to start auctioning oil deals.