A marine stationed in Iraq, usernamed Dreamcrusher, got bored and started posting some photos on this YayHooray thread.  In spite of shitty software (he's resizing in MS Paint) and long upload times, he's continued to post at regular intervals.

The photos, while not professional in quality, are striking in their earnest and unstudied depiction of everyday Iraq – more so, in fact, because they aren't editorialized by the polish and poise of a professional's work.  Equally interesting are Dreamcrusher's accompanying notes, delivered in spare, unpunctuated prose:

In other posts, he relates how difficult it is to maneuver a camera while wearing a flakjacket, rifle and helmet;  how nice the locals are, except that they keep asking him for weird things like soccer balls and gloves;  how he's learned to "sleep through a small firefight in my humvee."  He signs off with lines like, "well i am going to head off and eat my haliburton dinner."

Dreamcrusher has formed a little fanbase of YayHooray users who await his next upload with bated breath, and who genuinely seem to be concerned for his welfare and safety.  On one occasion, he promises to upload his next batch of photos straight away, then goes silent. Worried YayHoorayers post, "That was 5 hours ago... you think he's okay?"  (He turns back up in a few hours, having taken a break for food.)

In his own way, Dreamcrusher is doing what mass media and the Washington PR machine are failing to do: provide a thoroughly honest, matter-of-fact view of the war, and a sympathetic portrait of the people fighting it.