re: Christmas in Iraq
The WSJ article came up for free for me, and was listed as such. Good article.
For the record, I don't advocate using bugmenot.com to get into a site requiring a paid subscription. Only those annoying sites that require free registration so they can stick you on some marketing list.
Your second source can't possibly exist, since we have been informed by our Local Experts that all milbloggers are mind-controlled robots who can only write positive news.
Actually, there are a number of anti-war milbloggers. Just a lot more pro-victory ones.