Here's a link...

for an interesting perspective from the other side, literally. Once there check out his mothers blog straight from Baghdad. This is a personal and in your face perspective from an actual person living in the midst of it all. Also the blog of Majid. It is a frightening look into the mind of a 17 year old Iraqi student. It wouldn't hurt to understand where they're coming from.
A client asked me this morning if I wasn't afraid they would be checking up on me because I looked at a website from an Iraqi citizen. How sad that such a paranoid question could even be asked in this fear based contemperary culture. It feels like a bad movie about the old Soviet Union days all in the name of so called "Security".

(For some reason I can't get the link thingie to work. It doesn't show up in the preview nor the actual published page. Oh well, here it is anyway. You can just copy and paste it into your address bar if you're the least bit interested: http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com