TIME.com: The Secret Letter From Iraq -- Page 3

As should not be suprising about most situations, the truth is usually somewhere between the two political extremes. It's usually not as good as the strongest proponents say it is and it's usually not as bad as the most negative nellies make it out to be ... see excerpt from time.com quoted below.

TIME.com: The Secret Letter From Iraq -- Page 3: "Biggest Outrage — Practically anything said by talking heads on TV about the war in Iraq, not that I get to watch much TV. Their thoughts are consistently both grossly simplistic and politically slanted. Biggest Offender: Bill O'Reilly.

Best Chuck Norris Moment — 13 May. Bad Guys arrived at the government center in a small town to kidnap the mayor, since they have a problem with any form of government that does not include regular beheadings and women wearing burqahs. There were seven of them. As they brought the mayor out to put him in a pick-up truck to take him off to be beheaded (on video, as usual), one of the Bad Guys put down his machine gun so that he could tie the mayor's hands. The mayor took the opportunity to pick up the machine gun and drill five of the Bad Guys. The other two ran away. One of the dead Bad Guys was on our top twenty wanted list. Like they say, you can't fight City Hall."