[bluecollarman]

Excellent article for Marines..Good execpt for the slam on Rummy. What a difference 21 days makes at the arab news.

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[NMFXSTC]

That reporter had no business being "embedded"...she decided to pick and chose what she would endure and contend with and showed open disregard for the embedded program, lack of compliance (the MOPP suit episode), and a clear displacement from the war ("I' didn't want to know").

Excellent article? Yeah...it shows that some reporters are non-hackers and don;t belong in that program! The rest is a "woe is me/I had it so tough" piece of bovine excretment!

[IncPen]

While ultimately positive about the troops, this article makes the writer out to be vapid, ill-educated, and helpless in the extreme

It also exposes her nudge and wink that "not everyone likes what mean old Rummy is up to". She's letting the reader and her editor know that she's still 'on the team' in spite of all she's seen with her own eyes and the fact that, as evidenced by the preceding 250 words, she knows better

If this reporter wants to report dissent in the ranks, name names or shut the F up. I don't believe it for a minute.

And, she copped out! She never even saw the war!

She couldn't bear to see Americans shooting Arabs? Honey, sweetie stupid leftist reporterette: Get yer head outta the sand! It's a war! They're the bad guys!

Friggin' leftist.

She shoulda got shot, once in the ass, so she'd know what it felt like and so she could think about her stupidity everytime she sat down

For the rest of her life

[gcruse]

It's not Chaplin, sleezebag. It's Chaplain.
A leftwing vegan who chickened out from her
embed. I wonder if she told the sargeant on
the hospital ship that they wasted three days
looking for her worthless body?

[Free Vulcan]

That reporter is a snaky little bitch and I wouldn't turn my back on her for a sec if over there.

[CyberAnt]

I agree - a great article. I especially liked her statement about "I have been forever changed".

However, I am very curious about the comments regarding Rummy. I find it very difficult to believe these things would be spoken in front of media.

[Billthedrill]

That's two, her and an Irish fellow who will remain nameless. Two journalists with the chance not only of their professional lives, but of their personal ones as well, two without the courage to see it through. Their loss.

It is a pity this one didn't realize that combat troops are not immune from the tender sensibilities that led her to opt out rather than see people getting shot. In a lifetime of being in and around the military I have met fewer than a dozen individuals who actually enjoyed hurting other people, quite a bit fewer than in civilian life. One does not have to hate to shoot, and it is better that way. "It is good that war is terrible lest we grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee.

Well, she found out something about the Marines she was with, but not the big things. For that there's a price, one this reporter opted not to pay.

[cyncooper]

OK, I can see she is going to praise what she saw overall.

But I have read this far and I am trying for the life of me to think just what she thought she was being embedded in, if not a unit that was going off to war??

Putting the pieces of the puzzle together, it became clear to me that we were heading into battle. I had not joined the embed program to watch Americans fight Iraqis. The thought terrified me.

[nutmeg]

read later bump

[tictoc]

Next up from Barbara Ferguson, a report datelined from Jerusalem.

"Portrayals of Israelis as three-eyed, baby-eating monsters may have been somewhat exaggerated..."

[McGavin999]

Once the Arab world realizes that Rummy's original thoughts on war is the reason so few Iraqis were killed during this war, their thinking about him will change.

This embed program was just about the best thing to come out of this war. It's given journalists a chance to find out what the people in "fly over country" are like. These young Americans represent us exceedingly well.

[TrueBeliever9]

Good execpt for the slam on Rummy

Here is where she slipped in (ever so cleverly) her agenda. That was the knife she was holding dear to her heart - and I am sure she relished every minute of the insertion.