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Army Captain is writing 5000 letters home to random people telling them what went wrong, is wrong, and what to do now about Iraq

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Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2007

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10. Myth: The US public no longer sees Iraq as a central issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.
9. Myth: There have been steps toward religious and political reconciliation in Iraq in 2007.
8. Myth: The US troop surge stopped the civil war that had been raging between Sunni Arabs and Shiites in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
7. Myth: Iran was supplying explosively formed projectiles (a deadly form of roadside bomb) to Salafi Jihadi (radical Sunni) guerrilla groups in Iraq.
6. Myth: The US overthrow of the Baath regime and military occupation of Iraq has helped liberate Iraqi women.
5. Myth: Some progress has been made by the Iraqi government in meeting the "benchmarks" worked out with the Bush administration.
4. Myth: The Sunni Arab "Awakening Councils," who are on the US payroll, are reconciling with the Shiite government of PM Nuri al-Maliki even as they take on al-Qaeda remnants.
3. Myth: The Iraqi north is relatively quiet and a site of economic growth.
2. Myth: Iraq has been "calm" in fall of 2007 and the Iraqi public, despite some grumbling, is not eager for the US to depart.
1. Myth: The reduction in violence in Iraq is mostly because of the escalation in the number of US troops, or "surge."

This is amazing to me

this is the second soldier blog that I have read. The first one was pro war and this one against. We may think this is highly unusual but I was just thinking
about during the Civil war and every war we have been in. Soldiers have written letters and would express their feelings to those back home. Today,
we have the Internet and a much wider audience we are given information that in the pass may have been given only to parents or spouses. What will become of all this? It opens a big can of worms that makes me wonder where will it lead. I hope it leads to good things but for every good there's evil trying to suppress.

This is awesome!

An idea:

Should we pass this on to various media outlets. We could email it to Chris Matthews for example on the off chance that they may report on such information.