The thing is I don't rely on media reports, I get to hear what doesn't make the news - on both sides - the positive stuff, gradual rebuilding and the really ugly stuff, the GIs missing half a face and the 3 year-olds losing limbs to shrapnel. In the end this is what I'm hearing. If anyone has come out of this mess well it's the British troops, don't think I'm any kind of patriot for this country or that they should be there but their actions have done more to pacify the country than anything else despite their shitty treatment by blair.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Twain
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