Back in Contact with Iraq

I've been contacted again from one of my previous readers who is a Kurd living in Iraq and working now as a US translator. He describes Iraq as "a great hell" and like a "a great jail" from which there is no exit. I'll post more from him the next time we talk. It's strange to talk to someone who is not anti-US, nor strongly pro-US. He is simply anti- extremist. It makes me not know what media reports to believe.