You're right, we don't know where he stood but sometimes when it's so stacked to one side there is no choice but to use guilt by association until the process balances out. I will say a prayer for their full recovery the same way I do for every trooper that is injured or killed but I want these "reporters" to start giving some respect to our brave men and women instead of slandering them.
He was outside the wire. He was voluntarily in a combat zone. I have to give him credit for his commitment to his profession and his perceived reportorial duties.
As opposed to other well-known, MSM "reporters" who bunker themselves in the Palestine Hotel, or who sweat and shiver here in the States, terrified that they might be asked to stop writing anti-Bush polemics and to go to Iraq as an embed (are you listening, Mr. Dee Dee Myers?).