Iraq The Model has been added to my blogroll. This blog is published by three brothers, Mohammed, Ali and Omar, living in Baghdad, and gives a much different picture of life there than you will find in the average Western newspaper. Some examples:
If you have been living on a steady diet of gloomy Iraq news, blogs written by Iraqis are a welcome change. For the most part, they are more optimistic about the future of the country than newspaper reports. Even when reporting bad news, the authors demonstrate a commitment to democracy absent from reports by many journalists; after all, an Iraqi has to live with the consequences of our policy, whereas a reporter will go live comfortably at home no matter what the outcome. Most Iraqi bloggers are pragmatic -- they cannot afford to spin to score political points, so regardless of their opinions of George Bush or Americans they wish for a peaceful and democratic conclusion of the occupation. One wishes all the supposed friends of "the oppressed Iraqis" wished the same.