We'll know the war is going better when it starts to resemble the movie Three Kings. Sort of like in this story, in which fleeing Iraqi civilians fed hungry US troops a feast of lambs and chickens and boiled eggs and potatoes.

"They told me they wanted to go to America after the war. I said where. They said California. I said why? They said the song Hotel California and they left singing Hotel California."
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As troops munched on their feast, one medic warned the food could have been deliberately contaminated. He was quickly disregarded as the hungry marines forged ahead to make a fondue out of a donated tin of Australian processed cheese, but the potatoes were eaten before the cheese could melt.

Mmmm....

In more art-meets-life news, Time reports that Iraqis circulated Black Hawk Down to their troops as a manual for defeating Americans. Found this on Drudge Report.