[wretchard]

You may disagree, but I believe that the Iraqi executions of Americans will strengthen, rather than weaken our will. A lot of people thought Saddam was a cartoon character villain. After today, the hatred will be personal. If we had waited for some bowlderized, PC, sanitized account released 3 months after the fact, the fact of these men's sacrifice would essentially be in vain.

I think it is good policy for the public to know, within the limits of military security, what is going on.

[AntiGuv]

I do disagree. Embedded journalists can only accomplish one task whenever the military going gets tough - get in the way. The only thing they're good for is to broadcast images of well-treated POWs & celebrating locals, which doesn't require their front-line positions.

[AntiGuv]

These images of Iraqi executions were not taken by embedded journalists, nor would embedded journalists be in a position to take such images..