Here's how most of the blogs who noted it, (including our buddy Rusty over at Jawa Report  who had the good sense to link us, of course) - taking their cue from what MNF-I Iraq provided - covered it. 
 

KIRKUK, Iraq - The first class of Iraqi Air Force student pilots were awarded their flying wings as part of a graduation ceremony here, Oct. 13.

Nearly a year after the three trainees, Iraqi 2nd Lieutenants Hassan, Majid and Habeeb, entered the program, the success of the joint Iraqi Flying Training Wing and 52nd Expeditionary Flight Training Squadron came to a pivotal point in building a credible objective air force capable of conducting sustained operations in defense of the country.

As operations expand and the number of students being trained increases, the Iraqi Air Force will move closer to developing the foundational capabilities that will allow it to sustain independent operations and grow to meet future demands.
The new Iraqi Air Force stood up after the invasion in 2003 but, until today, all pilots were veterans who rejoined the force.

Before the graduation ceremony, the training wing dedicated its new facility with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

“The capability of this facility to train Iraqi pilots is very significant and will provide for the security of Iraq,” said U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Brooks Bash, Coalition Air Force Transition Team commanding general.

Heh.  Google the topic, and Rusty is the top entry...  *not* the MSM. 

Apparently, this isn't news.  And, perhaps, in a contentious election cycle for the US Presidency, it's less newsworthy... except that the major reason this cycle is contentious is, well, this war in Iraq... and one of the reasons it was embarked on was... to create an environment where an Iraqi general officer would talk that way, in public, with his name attached to his face. 

Consider - it will be the next President who sets the stage for whether or not this was an interesting historical footnote of little consequence.... or will be something that, in a sense, that while...
 

 The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.

With an altogether Arab flair, mind you, and for the Iraqis.  Remember, Lincoln's words were little noted at the time...  and when they were, it was mostly in terms of partisan praise or criticism... 
 
This is how Bill covered it here at the Castle, as many of you read yesterday.

But few got this part.  Cassandra over at Villainous Company did, as did Neptunus Lex.  how is this not important? Heck, it's the *core* of the story: 

One of the kids nudged me when a DV* started getting passionate in his address, and was interrupted by a standing ovation:
“He is saying that for the first time in our history, we are not doing things for one man, but we are doing it for all the people of Iraq. He is saying the US has showed us how, and we must not forget when we thank God every day, we must also ask him to bless the US.”