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Hidden stories of Iraq; hunting for the 'good stuff' is worth it.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: E. Thomas McClanahan
Two competing story lines have emerged in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Let's call the first one "Quagmire." The second might be titled "Iraq's Glass is Half-Full."
By and large, "Quagmire" is told by the large print news organizations and the TV folks.
"Half-Full" is mainly found on the Internet, although many of the links available lead to articles in the conventional media. For interested readers, a good place to begin broadening your view of the Iraq story is www.instapundit.com, a spritely Web log run by University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds. Instapundit is chock-full of firsthand accounts, story excerpts and links to other articles.
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