An old friend of mine just dropped off a DVD with some pictures her husband took while in Iraq. Talking to those who were over there, the picture is different than what is painted by the doom-sayers and armchair-middle-east-pundits here in the states. And this is coming directly from people who have been hit by IED’s and mortars.
It’s not the über-rosy picture painted by the administration where women leap from second story windows to give the GI’s handjobs as they walk by, but it is far from the ‘they hate us and wish we’d never shown up’ BS spewed by those who would rather see us fail than admit that some benefit could actually come out of war.
Once I look through them I plan on picking out the best then emailing them back to my friend to see if I can put them online and get a little context to go with them.