When we came in, we thought all of the wonderful equipment would be gone, since it's sensitive to water and moisture.

It's 150 miles of travesty, where you don't see any land, ... It's a very deep ocean. The water is black.

We had visions of untamed wilderness, soaring bald eagles and humpback whales flapping their tails in the water. Thankfully, we were not disappointed.

I think for most Iraqis it's not a big issue. The big issues are water, electricity and security.

We just want to have a say over our own water and manage it ourselves, like we always have.

We'll try to do more mundane programming in the later hours at night and ask schools to set their VCRs. We don't want the channel to be deadly boring to the average person.