[Old Sarge]

I am going to watch this Socialist schill. I am going to be on him like ugly on Helen Thomas. I will vivisect his every damn word. If I get so much as indigestion over KBR's chow from reading his "enlightened words", I invite you all to sit back and start the popcorn.

[Old Sarge]

I invite you all to use your lists, then stay and watch the fun over the next few days.

[pierrem15]

" see one of the Iraqi reporters here, a good friend, and ask him how things are going. "It's getting worse not by the day, but by the hour," he says, laughing a little bit. The head of AP television here starts ticking off several neighborhoods he says are too dangerous these days even for his brave Iraqi cameramen to go. More than 50 Iraqis have been killed in scattered violence yesterday, the day I arrived.

Today in Baghdad alone, nearly 20 are dead in drive-by shootings, roadside bombings and sectarian violence. Nearly everybody here has a tragic story to tell, of friends and family being killed or kidnapped, of staying in the hotel with us for fear of their own lives. Many have fled to nearby countries."

In short, his 'reporters' are former Baath intelligence or others whose friends and family probably had close (and lucrative) relations with Saddam's regime: that's why they are targets and can afford to hide out in Amman or Damascus.

A month ago it was all "insurgent attacks," now it's all "sectarian violence." The facts change to support the narrative.

[Marine_Uncle]

An old grof sargeant must do what he must do. Stay safe where possible. Who knows. This guy may get so unhinged once he sees how great you guys are he may find he cannot write anything but good things.

[Allegra]

Journalists and translators already here tell me there are a couple running gunbattles going on in Baghdad.

And...and there are IEDs exploding on EVERY STREET and mortars and rockets just FLYING THROUGH THE AIR ALL OVER THE PLACE and there's this HUGE CIVIL WAR going on and this place is DOOMED, I tell ya! It's DOOMED!!

[Modok]

Leave him on Michigan Avenue by Saddam's mosque.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Guess I'll have to search on your name to see what you're up to. Thanks to all in country Freepers work for the cause of freedom.