[BushisTheMan]

The TV images do not reflect the Big Picture reality.

This is so true. I met a guy from Northern Ireland last year. I asked about all the killing that went on there. He laughed and said it was only one little neighborhood in the whole city. By the news, you would have thought it was constant fighting. Most of the people went about their daily business. Think about it like when the police have a shootout with a criminal...

The MSM are nothing but liars and out to make a buck.

[Eagle Eye]

The fighting in Iraq is more than one or two little nieghborhoods and the truth is that westerners are not safe in many places at all.

It's not all open combat but it is certainly not hunky-dory either. Not when one has to wear body armor and a helmet to go anywhere outside of a secure zone and the secure zones receive rockets and mortars.