[angkor]

The conditions in Iraq Vietnam are worse than lousy. The afternoon temperatures often exceed 110 95 degrees, monsoon rains and high humidity are constants, troops are still mostly eating MREs K rations, mail from home is slow, and they are fighting a guerilla war.

I guess I don't understand these constant reports about the "horrible" conditions in Iraq. Could it actually be that the whimpy journos want to go home so badly, that their every interview is secretly about their own discomfort?

Are they now teaching "psycho-projection reporting" at J-schools?

[battlegearboat]

Take a salt tablet and wash it down with a Ba Mui Ba.

Don't pay for it with MPC.

Keep an eye open for Halberstam, Sheehan and Rather.

[CFC__VRWC]

I guess I don't understand these constant reports about the "horrible" conditions in Iraq. Could it actually be that the whimpy journos want to go home so badly, that their every interview is secretly about their own discomfort?

That's probably a huge factor. As further proof, remember all the whining and carping the media indulged in when President Bush took his first vacation at his ranch? They kept whining and carrying on about how horrible Texas was in August, and said this proved Bush was stupid. They were just mad because Bill Clinton took "cool" vacations in Martha's Vineyard, where the press could go to swanky cocktail parties on Walter Cronkite's yacht and, most importantly, avoid any contact with the hoi polloi.

So I would say that a large part of the media attitude does come from the fact that they hate Iraq, but that's secondary to their hatred of Bush and the miltary, and it serves to give them more venom to pour into their anti-American screeds.