For the umpteenth time, a local paper reports that a local citizen returns from a year in Iraq and shows that things are not as they seem if you were to get your news solely from the mainstream media:

Students get GI's view of war

Regarding "The Media":

"You see snippets of the war, but do you really see what's going on there?" asked Phil Tisi, who teaches participation in government and serves as the assistant to Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence.

"This is stuff you won't see on the news," Tisi said. "You don't see medics helping people and troops being thanked. This gives a soldier's viewpoint."

And from the returning GI:

"We let the Iraqi police do their job," Henriquez said. "We were there to make sure they do it right. The attitude of Iraqi people toward the U.S. was that they were happy that we took Saddam out. And happy that we are rebuilding."