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Unbelievable story about how war can change one's life and hobby, a must read for anyone:

Gaming in Baghdad (http://www.mtv.com/news/?source=TLD_mtvnews.com#/news/articles/1549410/20070105/index.jhtml)

Spends 4 hours at a time waiting in line for some gas for his generator so he can play some gamers @ $200 a month which must be allot of money over there right now.

"Before the invasion, we could buy a lot of games," Wisam said. "The games are available if you go outside. But maybe I'll get killed by a car bomb or [improvised explosive device]."

Whether you support the American war in Iraq or not you have to admit that this certainly shows a different perspective on it that touches a little closer to home being gamers ourselves.

Thats just crazy. I hate MTV website but that was a good article.

Yeah surprising MTV actually had something I was interested in, I'm sure it's a one-time thing though.  :P

A Nice article on iraq and its youth.  I often wonder what they do to get away from the daily violence.

Probably burn ants with magnifying glasses.

If I had to wait for four hours of gas I would use it for something more important than gaming.

 I was thinking the same thing. But then I thought if that was his only way to escape what is going around outside his door it would be worth it. Plus I bet he does use it for more then games.

What are your perceptions of this war? It's not like there's a constant firefight going on, especially in Baghdad.

I guess that depends on where you get your news, there are two types of news media on Iraq, American ones that are censored for positive outlook and word-played for effect because it's people are at the forefront and then there's how the rest of the world's media sees it.

That's not a jab at your media by any means, any country would do the same, you need to keep the people happy with what is going on and constant reports of deaths and destruction doesn't do that like word-playing a minor skirmish into a major victory, or call a few amputees minor injuries to keep hope strong. The Allies in WWII did it and so did the Axis, that's why Germany banned radios from it's captured territories so the besieged civilians wouldn't take inspiration from hearing about it's losses and rise up, or swell the ranks of the Maquis in France and others resistance groups.

Google "Baghdad" under the news tab, you'll find most US news is of the insurgents and most of the international news is of civilian casualties.

If you don't think Baghdad is that dangerous then explain why it's getting 17,500 more troops?

Bush to order 21,500 more troops to Iraq (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-01-10T221943Z_01_N10252884_RTRUKOT_0_TEXT0.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-R3-RelatedNews-1)

With shit blowing up in Baghdad all the time and all the deaths I would say I think it is a shitty place to be.

How about the people who waited 2 days for a PS3?

This whole war is stupid. Why aren't our efforts focused on capturing Osama? Imo, he's the #1 asshole to be rid of.

Well you're entitled to your view of our media. In reality our media is NOT shedding a positive light on this war as they are biased.

More troops will end the war faster. We lost Vietnam because we didn't commit ourselves fully. We can't sit over there leaving all these wide open spaces for the enemy to manuver and operate in. We need to flood the area with troops and finish this, everytime some "patriot" votes against sending more troops to Iraq the longer he prolongs the war and the more Americans he kills. The way we're fighting this is the way we fought Vietnam, we're trying to contain the threat, what we need is to utterly destroy the threat, and if that means WW3 so be it.

This is no walk in the woods, this is war. It is not a pleasant thing, but it must be fought, and it must be won if we're to continue to collect our video games and eat our fast food.