How did I freak­ing miss this? Appar­ently, on Sunday, the last Aus­tralian combat troops in Iraq lowered the Aussie flag and they’ll all be home by June 28.

Break out the cham­pagne, people! Rudd, I could kiss you!

Not that I think our respons­ib­il­ity for the damage is ended. I’m all for help­ing rebuild — if we’re wanted — and hope­fully not with the cor­rupt mil­it­ary-indus­trial con­tract­ors that have been win­ning the tenders so far.