It's hard to appreciate just how bad and ignorant the reporting is. For example, there was a story in the
NY Slimes on Thursday that described how a supply convoy of Marines held up in the sandstorm came under attack. It described the Marines as "frightened" because this light-skinned convoy (no armor) was attacked by an Iraqi armored column (no s--t).
In the end, the Marines used their pre-plotted artillery kill-boxes to attack the Iraqi's while waiting for air support. The next day the reporter surveyed the smoking carcasses of the Iraqi's and pronounced this to be "luck."
What should have been reported was that a company of Marine light infantry destroyed an entire Iraqi armoured column using its training in the worst of all possible visibility.
Luck my a$$.
They really can't tell the story the way because it doesn't exactly fit their world view.