Rob Ballew is an old school Newsviner who is currently serving in Iraq. He still writes on the Vine and yesterday submitted a story titled, Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is: My View of Iraq From the Inside:
Things have changed a lot in the few months we have been here. Attacks are down a lot and although we still get hit with rockets and mortars on occasion the attacks are down from when we first got here. There has also been a decrease in attacks both IED and small arms on convoys, this can be accredited to both the Coalition Forces as well as the Iraqi Forces who maintain the roads relatively well. And there has also been less attacks on civilians by insurgents which is a very good thing. All in all, although it coming along rather slow it is still coming along and even slow progress is better than no progress.
The other thing I see is the people are out more. There are more small businesses opening up by the day. It almost seems like there is less fear throughout the streets. The infrastructure although not up to standards is also getting better daily. I think this because if the work both Iraqis and Coalition forces have done in taking the streets back from the insurgents. We hear very little of this on the mainstream media, it seems only the bad news makes the headlines.
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