Help please. Do you know of websites posting US troop stories from Iraq?

[cyberpj]

I'm trying to share some information in response to a local LTTE saying americans aren't hearing the truth about how well things are going in Iraq from the media and they need to hear from the soldiers themselves.

So far, this is the only site I'm familiar with.
www.optruth.org

Can you help with any others?

[Skittles]

1. I get tidbits from the postings at www.anysoldier.com

they sometimes talk about how things are going. What I tell the "the media isn't telling the truth" crowd is that they are not for or against the war; they really don't seem to care because they've turned tabloid - I hear more about missing white girls and Michael Jackson than I do about any bad OR good news concerning the "war on terror".

[cyberpj]

4. Thanks.

I was suggesting that site also but for help.

[Robbien]

2. There were a couple on PBS

http://www.pbs.org/search/redir/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/
frontline: a company of soldiers | PBS
FRONTLINE reports from inside the US Army's 8th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Baghdad for an up-close, intimate look at the dangers facing an American military ...


http://www.pbs.org/search/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec05/soldiers_7-1.html
Online NewsHour: Soldiers, Marine Speak About Experiences in Iraq ...
Online NewsHour, SOLDIERS' STORIES. July 1, 2005. ... So that is one of the things that they have going with them. Frustrated soldiers. SGT. ...

[cyberpj]

6. Thanks. These are excellent but the links are a bit long to try to

get into a LTTE response. Hmmm... I'll work on it.

[Robbien]

9. You don't really need the first part of the link

It was just the search I did to find them. For example

http://www.pbs.org/search/redir/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company

could be shortened leaving off the search part

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company

[cyberpj]

12. Thanks. I'm watching the Frontline program myself now. nt.

[deacon]

3. There is a great one in the San Diego Union Tribune Sundays edition

that goes into how troops are sick of being the only ones fighting this war. That the government is only demanding from them and not from Americans to sacrifice--no bonds to help pay for equipment needed, no tax increases to help fund the war correctly etc. -- a war dished out on us but a government that wants to portray as not REALLY a war.

It's in the online opinion section.

[cyberpj]

7. Thank you. I read that and it's very good.

But I'm looking for an online site with ongoing input from soldiers either in or returned from Iraq. Something people can keep going back to.

But seriously, thanks for the input.

[Robbien]

11. I don't believe you will find a blog

The military frowns on it

Military Investigating Soldier Blogger in Iraq
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/134

If a soldier is writing a blog he knows to keep it quiet and knows the military will be watching it.

[cyberpj]

14. I know. I've been reading about that. But I thought maybe some vets

might be doing something else since returning.

If they've let any return yet.

[Robbien]

15. Surprise, I found one

he just got home this month.

http://www.soldierlife.com/

[cyberpj]

21. A very pro-military blog (no name provided) with links to other

pro-military blogs.

Amazing how hard it is to find any that talk about the atrocities there.

Could be because everything has to go through headquarters now and anything negative is "bad for morale" so it's stopped?

Anyway - today's blogs that get through are all pretty pro-war so that makes it appear like "it's all good".

[Robbien]

24. The one I loved reading

was
http://turningtables.blogspot.com/

he came back last year, but during the year he was over there the blog was very enlightening.

[cyberpj]

16. Found LOTS of pro-war blogs. As usual - no negative info gets through...

Milblogs
2Slick
A Day in Iraq
A Line In The Sand
A Soldier's Blog
Argghhh
Blackfive
Citizen Smash
Doc In The Box
Froggy Ruminations
My War
Pass the brass
Sgt. Lizzie
Sgt. Stryker
TCOveride

[Robbien]

19. I recognize many of them as blogs being funded through our Iraqi

propaganda office.

[cyberpj]

23. What do you mean?

[Robbien]

26. It is part of BushCo's happy face PR campaign

they paid people to write happy Iraqi blogs. A couple of them were unmasked in 2003/4. Some were written by people here in the states, and some were Iraqis paid to blog happy stories.

Many are closed now because interest has waned.

[cyberpj]

17. Army's Rules for Blogging from the Battlezone

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/paul-rieckhoff/armys-rules-for-blogging_2655.html

[cyberpj]

18. He did blog unfavorably about Iraq - but was also campaigning

"Campaigning for public office without permission from the secretary of defense while on active duty in the Armed Forces is a violation of Defense Department regulations."

This seems to be what they're using to hassle him.

[Binka]

5. My Son Will Be There In Five Weeks

When I stop crying I'll let you know what he says.

[cyberpj]

8. Bless your heart, your soul, and your son.

I saw you post this somewhere else on DU recently and said a prayer for you then. I'll also add his photo to my prayer box that gets daily attention.

[Binka]

10. Love From Ben And Me

:loveya:

[Callalily]

13. Your son will be in my prayers (n/t)

[babylonsister]

22. Binka, love and prayers to you, your son, and your

family-may he return safe and sound. :hug:

[babylonsister]

20. Michael Moore's site:

http://www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/willtheyevertrustusagain/

[cyberpj]

25. I know. That's a good one. I just didn't want to bring Moore's name up

when dealing with a rabid neo-conster. There's no way he'd even go to that site, much less believe anything there.

Sigh.......

[babylonsister]

27. Can't you cut and paste a few comments? I also thought for

someone who's a rabid neocon MM's name wouldn't fly, but soldiers' comments/letters should.