[Lady Jag]

That sounds pretty awesome. C-130s flaring is one of my favorite pictures to post. You don't seem to feel in much danger and you don't look crazy, so is all our media playing up the danger?

I believe I see a convincing argument to stay there. It looks like Iraqis abandoned robes for western wear after Saddam was captured; do you see that?

[Allegra]

You don't seem to feel in much danger and you don't look crazy, so is all our media playing up the danger?

There are still dangers "outside the wire," but things appear to be calming down. We hope so, anyway. That being said, the lamestream media has always played it up much worse than it really is here by simply neglecting to report the many good things that happen here. Progress is being made, but you'd never know it by watching CNN. Sometimes, we see CNN in the chow hall and say "What place are they talking about? That isn't what it's like here."

The majority of the Iraqi people love us, love President Bush (they see hin as their liberator) and want us to stay.

If the US were to pull out, Iran would be in here so fast, it would make your head spin. And they know it.