[vbmoneyspender]

Interesting article. The Independent accuses the US gov't of 'lying' and then fails to cite one instance in the article of the US gov't having 'lied.'

[denydenydeny]

They may be sans frontieres but they are definitely avec agenda.

[No Blue States]

"Later, the official version was changed to "the soldiers who fired the shell were seeking to 'neutralize' an Iraqi 'spotter'".

For all we know some of those reporters were working as spotters for the old regime. Al Zazeera comes to mind. But it doesnt really matter because reporting the war in the actual war zone is a known risk going in for a reporter. It isnt a tv show, its war and a tank shell might hit You.

[Billthedrill]

Aside from a panoply of accusations, there's not a lot of meat there. It was good of them to exonerate the troopers involved, but let's get real - these guys were expecting safety in the middle of an armored assault on an enemy capitol? That in itself is at once a tribute to the U.S. armed forces and an admission of impossible naivete.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Humor From The War In Iraq

[nw_arizona_granny]

This may be the Reporter who was shot, late one night, and was covered in the daily FReeper thread on the war.

Several Freepers were reporting the war news from the TV, someone asked if that was a sniper scope showing on the TV, and in seconds it had been put out of commission.

Turned out to be a reporter and his camera, who was directly behind the machine gun that was shooting at the Americans.

It was about 3 AM when it was in the FReeper thread.

Ruth