Chrenkoff is back

Apparently the rumors of his retirement from blogging were exaggerated. That's good news. So here are roundups of good news from Iraq,

All indications showed that there is high percentage of people in the regions that boycotted the last parliamentary elections are registering their names to participate in the coming October referendum and the general elections next January, Laith Kubba told the press.
In Fallujah, considered one of the major hotbed of Iraqi insurgency, clerics of mosques called on the residents in the city to participate in the constitution referendum scheduled to be held in mid October.

And from Afghanistan.

Seven years of drought had left fields monochrome plains of brown dust. But good snows and rains have many Afghans seeing color again--seas of golden wheat undulate in the breeze, green apricot trees are plump with yellow fruit, melons of every hue dot fields.