"Security" Hometown Baghdad
Hometown Baghdad is a video blog that joined YouTube on January 9, 2007 and has produced 18 videos since then of every day life in Baghdad for a group of teenagers. The latest video called "Security" gives a tour of Ausama's grandmother's house after U.S. soldiers raid it because they believed that it was a terrorists haven.
"Powerless"- Hometown Baghdad
Powerless shows us how Iraqis deal with constant power outages and living with only a few hours of power each day.
"Kiss and Tell" talks about the dating stories of Saif, Adel, and Ausama.
Adel plays his guitar for therapy and talks about his band in "Songs of Pain".
A picture of a regular school day in Iraq posted by BlogIraq.
If you want to find out what is really going on in Iraq, blogs and vlogs written by real Iraqis give a much different us a unique perspective on the war.
You can also get an idea of like in Baghdad from the McClatchy Baghdad Bureau at the Inside Iraq blog.
American newspapers rarely report on civilian life on Iraq. I found an article from German newspaper Spiegel called "Anything Is Better than Baghdad"
According to a survey complied by Mercer Human Resource Consulting Baghdad Came in Last for quality of life among global cities. The red cross released a report about the 'ever-worsening' humanitarian crisis in Iraq.
With all this bad news its hard to believe that John McCain's walk through Baghdad was anything more then a political stun to fool Americans into thinking the war is getting better.
In order to get the truth with whats is really going in the American public has to search beyond the mainstream media.
