More of "the Real Deal" reporting from Iraq

Red 2 Alpha has a long post up, with a great amount of detail about a patrol in Baghdad. His story contradicts the defeatist stories we see daily from the MSM. Red 2's words, once again, are joined with the many other articulate and thoughtful service people's "journals" for the world to read, because it's real first person history. As a related matter, Greyhawk at Mudville Gazettte rhetorically wondered how history may have been different if service men in Vietnam could have been blogging in a post titled "Why Bother?" He discusses how truth and accuracy seem to be common virtures among the milblogs.