Has Iraqi life returned to normal?

Something struck me today as I was reading Al Sabaah. It seemed so.....well.....normal. It read like a hometown newspaper in America - "Local man receives service award" - "City allocates funds for parks project" - that kind of stuff. Look at the headlines for today:

PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL CONFERENCE STARTED

PAYING SALARIES OF DISSOLVED PRESIDENCY OFFICE

5,000 EMPLOYMENTS AVAILABLE AT MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

BASRA AIRPORT RESUMES FLIGHT

ID 950 MILLIONS FOR IMPROVING WATER AND SANITATION PROJECTS

WORK UNDERWAY IN EIGHT AGRARIAN REFORM PROJECTS

RED CRESCENT SPECIFIES HARMED NEEDS IN SAMARA

MENTALLY RETARDED TO BE INCLUDED WITH SALARIES

What? No bombings? No kidnappings? No beheadings? What's going on here? Could Iraq actually be returning to "normal"?

Firas Georges posted for the first time in a while yesterday. He had this to say:

With all that I had to finish building my own house, and ............its finished and I moved in and writing my first article in it using my laptop without electric power, its still bad and now I can understand part of the problem of the electric power, because when we moved into the new house we left the old one for my mother full furnished (especially electrically) and we bought all the electric stuff new (refrigerator, second TV, water cooler, four air conditioners, washing machine, second receiver), with all that how could any one blame the electricity ministry for not fixing the electricity problem, every time they add another watt for the electric pool another guy like myself moves into a new house and drag the extra watts for himself, and so............. Knowing that we can see how Iraqi family monthly income is expanding and they are using it to make life easier and full of prosperity.
What may back up my criteria is what is going on in the ISX (Iraq Stock eXchange). Things there are more than good, its terrifying good. Nobody expected to close deals in one day with the same value of what he used to close in three months work, and investors are trying to find themselves a broker who isn't so occupied with deals.
Among all that good things we have problems like electricity shortage because of what we became capable to buy, traffic jam because of hundred thousands cars entered the market with low prices, and also because of the many check points made by the new Iraqi National Guards who made a great difference in the security situation and many more problems like those which we should be happy with and thankful for whoever are trying to build a good future for Iraq & Iraqis.

Will you hear about this on your evening news? Or Al Jazeera? Not likely. But the truth is, things are getting better, and the average Iraqi is beginning to realize it.

It's just possible that all the so-called "experts" were wrong about Iraqis being able to live together - Sunni, Shite and Kurd. That the Iraqi people are finding freedom more enticing than old tribal allegiances. That George Bush may actually have been right!