[Ex-Dem]

This is probably one of my favorites too. I'm starting to like this James Hider fellow more and more. I guess having a US military medic patch you up after taking shrapnel from a terrorist's RPG does interesting things to an embedded reporter. Makes them realize who the real enemy is.

[rmgatto]

This is the first article on the Iraq war I've read that is in any way reminiscent of the great Ernie Pyle's sympathetic realism. The tripe people are writing out of there is flat out embarrasing, generally so politically motivated that is nothing more than propaganda from bad writers with bad politics.