Michael Totten is an independent reporter who imbeds with military units in Iraq and posts to his site. If you are sick of CNN and all the other big media, he and Michael Yon, another indie reporter and any of the milblogs on the link list are good places to start getting a sense of what is really going on in Iraq. The following articles and pictures, the first about the battle for Ramadi and the second about the people there, are well worth the read.