"The Secret Letter From Iraq", good read.

[johnnyrocket]

VERY interesting, check out these excerpts:

Biggest Hassle — High-ranking visitors. More disruptive to work than a rocket attack. VIPs demand briefs and "battlefield" tours (we take them to quiet sections of Fallujah, which is plenty scary for them). Our briefs and commentary seem to have no effect on their preconceived notions of what's going on in Iraq. Their trips allow them to say that they've been to Fallujah, which gives them an unfortunate degree of credibility in perpetuating their fantasies about the insurgency here.


Biggest Outrage — Practically anything said by talking heads on TV about the war in Iraq, not that I get to watch much TV. Their thoughts are consistently both grossly simplistic and politically slanted. Biggest Offender: Bill O'Reilly.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1543658-1,00.html

[sce56]

1. Great one I liked

Most Profound Man in Iraq — an unidentified farmer in a fairly remote area who, after being asked by Reconnaissance Marines if he had seen any foreign fighters in the area replied "Yes, you."

Got Fascism Yet?

http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/bush-nazilinkconfirmed.htm

[habitual]

2. awesome response by that farmer... n/t

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. "yes, you."

And then they burned down his house, raped his family and killed his livestock.
Yes, I know thats not fair of me, but how else have between 100k and 200k Iraqi's been killed. Its sickens me to think of these innocent people dying by the thousands for no other reasons than that we are in the grips of a madman.