[TigersEye]

I agree with everything you said. it happened the way it seems then he needs to be tossed out on his ear. That's why I thought the statements about the Pentagon asking him to leave sounded strange. Geraldo's a bigmouth and a showoff but he's not stupid. I don't think he even needed a briefing to know that what he did was wrong, if it was a SNAFU. I suspected intentional disinfo from the first. I'm having a hard time imagining any of our superbly trained troops, Army or otherwise, just letting a well known ham like Geraldo or any other reporter go as far as he did if they didn't want them to.

It's still up in the air for me.

[rolling_stone]

My guess is the military being disciplined and having their troops used to obeying orders thought it unecessary to babysit Geraldo as he most likely was told what to do and not do. The troops were planning an attack that was to take place in the immediate future and probably were preparing their weapons, equipment etc and doing their jobs. Someone might have been assigned to watch Geraldo but was occupied with something else for a few minutes and Geraldo might have seized the opportunity for his big know it all report...The fact that he apparently didn't realize what he did was wrong when questioned the next morning strikes me as odd. As for him not being yanked right away, he did have a good relationship with the military and it probably had to go through the chain of command and an honorable retreat of Geraldo was done as a favor to Fox instead of having him yanked and embarrased on the spot. Fox has been one of the few allies to the military in the PR campaign...Politics of one sort or another...