# Are there any pro war "letters from Iraq"?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 8, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-pro-war-letters-from-iraq/268231 "2004-10-08T17:51:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-pro-war-letters-from-iraq/268231/1 "2004-10-08T17:51:48Z")

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In Great Debates **Zoe** had written a post in which he/she asked whether Iraqis would boot us out of Iraq given the chance to vote on it, and somewhere in the middle of the post, someone had posted “[Letters from Iraq](http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1319718,00.html)”. Very interesting.

So now I’m interested in whether there are letters from soldiers who believe going to war was in our best interests, and believe they’re doing the right thing. Are there any legit websites online where I can read some?

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-pro-war-letters-from-iraq/268231/2 "2004-10-08T20:07:25Z")

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I don’t consider the Guardian or Michael Moore to be unbiased sources. You’d hardly expect Michael Moore to publish any positive letters he received. And how many soldiers would send positive letters to Moore knowing they’d be ignored?

I don’t have a site for positive letters but I suggest these sites (I don’t know if you consider them “legit”):

Greyhawk, a contributor to this blog [http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/001503.html](http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/001503.html) , is actually blogging from Iraq.

This blogger has returned from a tour in Iraq: [http://indepundit.com/](http://indepundit.com/)

This site is not by a soldier, but it collects good news from Iraq and Afghanistan: [http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2004/10/good-news-from-islamic-world.html](http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2004/10/good-news-from-islamic-world.html)

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-pro-war-letters-from-iraq/268231/3 "2004-10-09T07:01:08Z")

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Why would Michael Moore need to print pro-war letters? The Bush Administration is already tooting the pro-Iraq-war horn on its own; Moore’s just showing the other side of the coin.

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**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-pro-war-letters-from-iraq/268231/4 "2004-10-09T07:37:37Z")

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> Why would Michael Moore need to print pro-war letters?

I almost answered “Honesty”, but caught myself at the last second.