I have seen dozens and dozens of letters and articles quoting military personnel who are and have been in Iraq, and their comments on the American media all boil down to "how can you listen to this crap?" I've posted a number of them here along the way, and I'm not ambitious enough to dig them up.

When these military people tell me that the media are not giving us the true picture of how things are going in Iraq, I'm going to believe them over what people like you tell me. That clear enough?

In any case, the bulk of the article was on attitudes and the kinds of people that have gone to Iraq, including both the stresses and the victories. Try reading the whole thing.

You hope the patient is dying. The facts say otherwise. The media will be blowing every hiccup and local incident up into a disaster for the next five years--the equivalent of seeing the Watts riots as a sign of the fall of the U.S. government.