The Boston Globe has a graphic with the results from this poll showing that 62% of Iraqis are optimistic about the future (higher than here in America). Now, there are several ways of taking these results. One is that things aren't nearly as bad there as some would have us believe and the situation is very much looking up - a job well done. The other is that things are so bad there now that Iraqis believe it couldn't possibly get worse. Let's take a look at the article that accompanies the graphic - a profile of two "typical Iraqis" - and see how they frame it.

Boston Globe: In land of fear, hope takes root - Nation looks to future, though violence rages

From grim police state to daily hell...yeah, that's quite a gamut of experience the Globe sees fit to report. Not "liberation," but only "the promise of liberation," and in spite of the balance of the article being a bit better than the start, the entire section of the article that appears on the front page is uniformly negative.