[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.

[BushisTheMan]

Because you are there and I am not, I'll take your word for it.

Hopefully once Fallujah and Al Sadr are taken care of, the larger part of the country will go back to how they were before, like before the Sadr gangs started kidnapping people.

I also blame the press and how the Muslims have learned to use them to their advantage.