One of these is worth 100 BBC articles and 15 CNN reports.   It's a letter from the front written by an Army Spec Ops officer

Hey Guys, sorry it's been so long since I've sent anything but a quick note to you individually. However things have been pretty hectic since the end of hostilities and the start of the real war. Despite what the assholes in the press like to say over and over about the Ba'ath Party and Feydaheen.

2) It isn't any worse than expected;

3) Things are getting better each day, and

4) The morale of the troops is A-1, except for the normal bitching and griping.

My brief love affair with the press, especially the guys who had the cajones to be embedded with the troops during the fighting, is probably over, especially since we are back being criticized by them same RolandHeadly types that used to hang around the Palestine Hotel drinking Baghdad Bob's whiskey and parroting his ridiculous B.S.

It's a bit of a LONG read but keep this URL in your backpocket.   These are the *real* guys on the ground.   His anecdote about the BBC journalist and the Palestinian dimwit is priceless.  At what point does the BBC get indignant about being taken for a ride by these losers?  Our Spec Ops officer demonstrates a MUCH finer nuanced understanding of the ethnic / tribal / religious  questions in the region than the BBC droid he runs into.