From the Iraq blogosphere
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You'll find the good, the bad, the ugly, and the encouraging; you'll see the optimistic and the pessimistic; it will be left-leaning, right-leaning, or just plain old observations; some will say it's right, some will say it's wrong; you'll see the problems, and you'll see the achievements; you'll read about the successes as well as the failures; you'll see the military pride and, of course, the military complaints; they'll be glad they're there, while others yearn for home; they'll be signs of both despair and hope; some will be saying go home, while others will be saying I'm glad you're here; some will make you laugh, others will make you cry; there will be some answers, and others will be asking why; and on it goes for those of us in the cozy comforts of our home to decide the answers to the argument of the day.
I've been reading a lot of the blogs from Iraq this morning, and although I realize that many of them are shams, many are not, as many are real. If you feel so inclined, weed through the multitude of blogs and post and/or comment as you feel appropriate. (I wonder, however, if it's possible to have a thread without the normal !@#$%^&* - just discussion.)
I ran across this article today....
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040925/ap_on_hi_te/blogs_of_war
...and I went to some of the links - and linked links - and a thread is born. There ya' go.
http://iraqataglance.blogspot.com/
http://www.daggerjag.blogspot.com/
http://iraq-iraqis.blogspot.com/
One comment from an Iraqi teacher that really struck a chord with me - it shows the deep divisions:
".....As we were discussing in this topic, three teachers took share of the discussion and encouraged those hostile acts, we were very astonished with their words, and we kept looking at each other as they started their strange speech, they believe that: those acts make people resist the ?occupation? and force them to leave the country, because people will put their hands in cold water if there is electric power, oil, petrol and security, no one of the ordinary people will be annoyed or be anxious of anything, they will live in ordinary life and the Americans and other forces will stay in Iraq fearing nothing!.......What strange brains they carry in their heads!.......They don?t think that all these acts drive Iraq to a deep hollow, to a complete destruction........However, we ignored them and remembered what their husbands were."