I’m guessing most of you haven’t visited MNF-Iraq.com. It is an excellent resource for discovering the official coalition perspective on what’s happening inside Iraq. It also has a lot of useful information for those of us who are serving in MNF-I or a subordinate command.
Did you know you can read transcripts of the weekly briefings given by generals in Iraq to the media? You can take a look at the PowerPoint slide presentations too. It’s not light reading, but there is gold buried in them thar hills if you’re willing to prospect a little bit. Plenty of other features will probably catch your interest, including video and photos. If you care about what is really happening in Iraq, you should see a side of things you probably haven’t seen in detail.
You can read exactly what the generals are saying and find out what questions they were asked by the press. And you might even scratch your head and wonder why most of what you read doesn’t make it into your local news source, or sounds so different when it does.
Full disclosure: I’m one of the webmasters of the above mentioned site. I’m not trying to blow my own horn here, just sharing a resource I think has value.