Mr. Pax Goes To Washington The Guardian Newspaper published a fascinating series of essays by the famous Baghdad Blogger, Salam Pax. Mr. Pax, at great personal risk,travelled to Washington last week searching for answers about the Iraq War. In his essays, he writes about meeting with David Kay, a CIA analyst, and an American solder: You have no idea how strange it feels that we share so much in common. When I told him I would never actually approach an American soldier on the street in Baghdad, he told me that if we were in Baghdad he would probably be talking to me with his gun pointing at me because he would be scared shitless. Yet there we sat, drinking beers together. We exchange stories about how badly both of us are dealing with sounds of things popping. He tells me he will never again go to a July 4 celebration because of the fireworks, and I tell him how I got laughed at when I ducked and ran after a car backfired near me in London. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1332810,00.html