soldier and Iraqi blogs

Here is a short article that describes the military's reaction to soldier's blogging from Iraq. The article specifically focuses on a soldier's website that my family and I frequent. I had an email conversation with this particular man earlier this month in which he told me that the army has all but shut down his site and that as a soldier he has "no freedom of speech." As someone planning on writing about my experience from Iraq, I hope that that is not the case. In the army's defense, I understand the need to keep certain information from being available to the public. At the same time, so long as I am not compromising "operational security," I feel I should have the liberty to say any dang thing I want.

Also, here are a few blogs of interest written by Iraqi citizens. They offer very different perspectives regarding the occupation, some generally optimistic, other more or less critical. All worth checking out though.
Where is Raed
Baghdad Burning
Healing Iraq
Iraq the Model