[Lexington Green]

and the soldiers see
the press supports the enemy

[BlueNgold]

About damn time someone bothered to file another report from the inside. The embedded reporters, to a man, came back with awe and respect for what our guys face. Since then the liberals in the editing room have gone back to their routine of sound bites and commentary from the homefront.

I have to give credit where and when it is due: Kudos to ABC for publishing this piece.

[Servant of the 9]

How did this ever get out of ABC News?

So9

[maica]

Good story about a bad situation.

[Prodigal Son]

The perspective of the soldiers doesn't begin or end with the gun battles. When one of the new Stryker vehicles was hit by a road-side bomb and burned, critics of the vehicle went on the attack.

The soldiers there saw if differently. They saw a 20-ton Stryker bounce in the air and felt the heat and concussion of the explosion more than a football field away. Rushing to the aid of those inside, they were stunned. All jumped out of the Stryker. There was one minor injury. "I thought they were all dead," one soldier told me. "It was a big one [bomb.]" There has been one other similar incident with a Stryker. It didn't catch fire, was repaired and is now back in the war. No one in a Stryker has been killed in combat.

Interesting perspective on the Stryker in this article. Interesting too that the article itself is addressing the way soldiers see the media not representing the true picture on the ground.

(I chose some posters from the latest thread on the Stryker that I participated in- don't worry, I don't have a ping list- I just though this item was relevent to the other discussion)

[mark502inf]

... soldiers' mistrust of the press continued. They see the world from the lenses of human targets, soldiers who want to come home to their families. It's kill or be killed.

Hmmm--sounds like he's trying to say soldier mistrust in the press is rooted in their emotional state as "human targets". Implicit in that viewpoint is that the mistrust is not necessarily rational. Another viewpoint is that sodiers don't trust the press because they see the world through the lens of their own eyes and know the difference between what is actually happening on the ground and what most of the press reports.

[Tribune7]

They saw a 20-ton Stryker bounce in the air and felt the heat and concussion of the explosion more than a football field away. Rushing to the aid of those inside, they were stunned. All jumped out of the Stryker. There was one minor injury. "I thought they were all dead," one soldier told me. "It was a big one [bomb.]" There has been one other similar incident with a Stryker. It didn't catch fire, was repaired and is now back in the war. No one in a Stryker has been killed in combat

I did not realize that. Most of our media people are jokes.