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It's funny because in all of the war stories that we have explored so far America has been the good guy. America is always seemingly the good guy, on the news, in war stories, and always just in general. The Baghdad Burning blog sheds a different light on a typical American war story. Riverbend gives an uncut and rather raw outlook on what it was like for the Iraqi citizens that we were “liberating”. She tells of the horror stories that her friends and family went through on the daily basis. All of the checkpoints in the sweltering heat, the sleepless nights filled with sounds of war, the constant humiliation and degradation. She uses her blog entry titled “Setting the Record Straight” to really tell a war story from a different view. Typically we don’t hear about how American troops kill children and raid homes. We don’t hear about the embarrassment that the victims of war went through. If by chance we do indeed hear about it, they always “deserved it” or were a “threat”. Reading about the terror caused by Americans on innocent children, women, and families sheds a completely different light on the average war story. It causes the reader to think about the other side of the war—the non-American side. It makes war seem much more violent and disheartening. Especially because, they didn’t ask for liberation. Riverbends explanation of the war through her blogs portrays Americans as selfish and coldhearted, which may not be too far from the truth.