Read the blogs of US soldiers in Iraq. This is not Fox news...
http://www.operationtruth.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=262&Itemid=119
extracts, by Clifton Hicks
"We were on a nice little post called Camp Slayer. It was infested with civilian contractors, MI people, special forces, and some Army engineer unit who we called ìGatorî for some reason. I guess it was a pretty snazzy post if you were one of those people, all of whom lived like kings on the nice part of the base, but if you were a 'Cav soldier' then it sucked. We were tucked away in the shittiest part of the base, behind two concrete walls and a canal, about a mile and a half from all the luxurious MWR facilities "
"Occasionally we would knock down a gate with a Bradley and raid a house, usually the wrong house, and when it was the right house the bad guys would already have caught wind of us and be long gone most of the time. Then we would just snoop around till we found one or two young males and we'd zip strip them and haul them back if they looked suspicious. We beat the fuck out of a lot of people but we rarely shot them. They threw rocks at us a lot, and so we took to carrying rocks with us to throw back at them, there were some serious cave man fights going on in the early days, but they seemed to spend more time shooting into the air and at each other than they did at us."
"By the time I finally made it back to Florida I wasn't able to cry and kiss the dirt in my front yard like I'd planned. I just couldn't make myself feel happy about it, I guess partly because I knew it was only a matter of time before I would see Iraq again. I couldn't sleep either, at first I just thought it was jet lag or something to do with the time zones, but jet lag doesn't last for 4 months or make your face twitch. After a while I was sitting up all night, not even trying to sleep, watching the muscles in my face jump around in the mirror, then sleeping all day when my family was awake and wanting to see me. I'll feel guilty about that for the rest of my life."
