“years ago we were hungry, oppressed, living in a big prison and hopeless but we had each other … we were more than friends WE WERE BROTHERS and agreed to hate the government of Saddam … i know we are still brothers but we can’t visit each other home now and most of us can not agree any more.”For any demablogs still wishing to accuse the MSM (mainstream media) of spinning a line in Iraq I recommend McClatchy‘s new Baghdad blog.

It’s not really a blog so much as a sustained lament:

a neighbor of ours in Fallujah had a heart attack at 1 in the morning, it is curfew … insurgents have bombed the landlines communications and cellphone towers (the coverage is so weak that you have to go to the second floor of the house and risk a near by American sniper hit thinking that you are up to something … The family and neighbors headed to the near by mosque (100 meters away) for help. The Imam responded by turning the generators on and used the loudspeakers and asked for the help of the Iraqi police and army … NO ONE RESPONDED … The family watched their father die without receiving any help from any one…