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Jane Stillwater is blogging her way back home from the Green Zone. As mentioned previously, Jane is a blogger from Berkeley, California who managed to get press credentials and paid her own way to Baghdad.

What has she learned from a hectic two weeks of press briefings and interviews?

On the one hand…Americans…are conscientiously trying to re-build the very thing that they themselves have destroyed. And on the other hand, they are obviously doing something very wrong out there beyond the walls of the Green Zone because after four freaking years, Iraq is STILL living in a terrible nightmare. Only this nightmare keeps getting worse.

What are the prospects for our soldiers as Bush escalates the level of violence in Iraq?

When I first came to Iraq, I was thinking that American troops should come home, like, right now. And then I decided that they were doing some good things over here — like preventing a bloodbath between the Sunni nutcases and the Shia nutcases, restoring electricity, building schools, that whole Marshall Plan route. But two things that I have seen here changed my mind. The first was when I actually saw the results of warfare up close — innocent people all bleeding and raw. And the second was when I came here to Kuwait and started watching platoon after platoon of young raw recruits getting ready to board transports to “surge” off to Iraq after, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, only two weeks of training. When I saw them standing for roll call outside their tents every morning, the words “cannon fodder” just kept popping back into my brain.

Jane’s blog is full of insight, just the polar opposite of Michelle Malkin’s mindless war propaganda.

This entry was posted Monday, April 23rd, 2007 at 8:39 am and is filed under Disaster, Iraq, Jane Stillwater, Michelle Malkin, Military, This Blog, War. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.