[Revolting cat!]

Buh, bye!

[Spruce]

Mr. Smucker should be ashamed of himself.

[Bobby777]

can't be on the battlefield, embedded, if they can't follow the rules ... they can get people killed ...

[Rightone]

buh bye. See ya.

[aristeides]

"My understanding of the facts at this point from the commander on the ground is that this reporter was reporting, in real time, positions, locations and activities of units engaged in combat," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said in a statement to the Monitor.

If this reporter was reporting on the position of the II M.E.F. (if I've got that name right) that has been placed in Jordan and West Iraq, it's interesting to read that it's "engaged in combat."

[prairiebreeze]

Better to get rid of him than chance the fool leaks something else. Break the rules and you're outta here!

Prairie

[Ditto]

Dumb Smucker.

[Gman]

"With a name like Smucker...he's SUPPOSED to be good..."

[Bella_Bru]

A reporter for The Christian Science Monitor has been ordered out of Iraq after the Pentagon said he revealed the location of a Marine unit during a television interview.

See ya, moron!

[DaBroasta]

Smucker reported the unit's location Wednesday during an interview on CNN...

It figures CNN would somehow end up aided the enemy.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Should his mom be referred to as a Mother Smucker?

[Revolting cat!]

Oh, but doesn't the public "have a right to know"?!

[zingzang]

I think a "friendly fire" accident would solve everything.

[Beck_isright]

Have a nice day. Perhaps he can become an "imbed" for the Medina division.

V

[Brad’s Gramma]

Good.

[litany_of_lies]

I believe this is the same guy who was on NPR earlier this week bragging about all of the things he did to get into Iraq from Kuwait illegally, or at least against police orders. He struck me as a smart-aleck jerk who has no respect for anything except a story scoop.

It also turns out (from a previous thread) that his dad is a hardcore antiwar zealot who, if I recall correctly, was among those arrested over the past weekend. So counting on "Freelance Phil" to provide anything except antiwar tripe would probably be futile.

For giving away troop positions, he's lucky he's alive, considering the potential jeopardy he place soldiers in.

Non-embedded reporters who get hurt or killed have no one to blame but themselves and perhaps their bosses. In fact, if their bosses ordered them in as non-embeddeds and they get hurt, the families of the survivors should be able to sue the publications involved into bankruptcy.

[lilylangtree]

What's wrong with this creep? Is he on the payroll of Saddam Hussein? More likely Martin Sheen bankrolled this Smucker fellow. Leaves a bitter taste in one's mouth. And I happened to like Smucker's jam.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Instead of kicked out this scum should have been
kicked forward.
Field Goal!
And CNN would report this to their master sadDAM!

[ex-Texan]

Butt Head reporter ...... Just crazy, IMHO.

[Duke of Milan]

"Philip Smucker... was not embedded but joined the First Marine Division on Sunday"

I heard this guy describe how he and the photographer were in Iraq as independents and just "attached" themselves to a unit!!(for protection no less) The unit must have not wanted to cause bad pr or something but the guy seemed such a jerk I couldn't believe they didn't try to MP this guy out of there.