Some things we didn't see in the news:

I was cruising the foreign press getting alternate views on the news. (You should try this!) One outlet said that not tending to a dead body in the Muslim culture never happens. On election day, after suicide bombers blew themselves up trying to take out polling places, voters would step up to the body lying there, spit on it, and move up in the line to vote.

Another article pointed out that we all heard from the media about the 100 Iraqis killed as they were lined up to enlist in the police and security service. What the media didn't point out was that the next day there 300 lined up in the same place.

The more Iraqis the terrorists kill, the more they drive the Iraqis away from their cause and toward a democratic form of government that recognizes the human rights of all people regardless of race, creed, religion or tribal affiliation.

--Do yourself a favor. Expand your information resources.