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This action is overdue.

He should consider himself lucky that they aren't digging 5.56 mm bullets out of his hyde.

Geraldo just broadcast live from Iraq. The title needs to be changed. CNN reported it, and it's on their website. MSNBC picked up on it. This was a hoax of major proportions.

Check the last few posts on this thread.....the story was manufactured by MSNBC ("Peter Arnett's channel"...as Geraldo just jabbed).

Shortly before leaving Afghanistan, Gerryaldo put on a circus with the 82nd AB in which he was getting all huggie-kissie with the CO of the outfit - a Col. as I recall. You could see by the obviously big, tough CO's dark, flaming eyes and clenched jaw muscles that he was straining all of his ironclad self-discipline not to field-strip the flamboyant moustacheoed little buffoon into his essential components and stomp all of them flat into the Afghani dirt. I could almost see the nitrocellulose smoke curling out of his ears.

It seemed that it took a while to get JR out of Kuwait - several convoys departing for the front seemed to have one reason or another why they just didn't have room for the dandy sport and his big bag of toys. I wonder how much they had to bribe someone to find room on a CH-47 headed North.

Did you see that black rucksack he was toting? Whoooie!

Frankly, I am a little uncomfortable with how he coaxes personal and family info out of Troops - I would be expressing my love to totally fictional Wives, Sweethearts, Parents etc. in a Hometown somewhere in Colorado (I live in Maine); If my real family saw it on TV they would get the message all right, and not have to worry about a visit from some sleeper Jihad cell.

The North Koreans would not need this sort of intel; back in '68 they would talk to guys in foxholes on listening points via a loudspeaker and tell them all about their family and how they were doing, sometimes before the GI had recieved the word from home. They said that it could kind of get to you after a while. These Iraquis as near as I can tell are genuine doddoes compared with the Kongsan; if and when the ball is re-opened in Korea (the war, police action, or whatever it is has never been resolved - just on hold since about 1953, subject to resumption at any moment)we will be involved in a whole different show which had best not be taken too lightly.

And I really wondered about his laying out the battle plan in the sand like that, after everyone of his peers have been so tight about that sort of thing. I'm a little surprised that he didn't pull out a Cavalry saber to draw with, given his penchant for dramatics.

At least they seem to have cured him of his penchant for gaudy, absurd headgear - I think it was Kosavo when he kept showing up with the darndest costumes, intimating that he was "packing" and ready for a "gunfight" (THAT was SCAREY!), then in Afghanistan ducking and rolling around on the ground as a "sniper" round "just missed" him... Turns out that he was miles away from the action and probably staged the whole thing.

It may appear that the GI's he's "inbedded" with like him, and I hope they do; they should be commended for their tolerance - but I'm rather inclined to think that they take him as a comedy relief of sorts. Sort of like a Court Jester; the 101st Airborne now have their own camp-following Fool. Surely no one in their right mind takes Jerraldo the least bit seriously any more, if they ever did, but his entertainment value might be earning his keep.

Not to mention that satillite phone he packs around sure comes in handy for the guys who probably have no other timely or reliable means for keeping in touch with home; that has to have a positive effect on morale.

Maybe they'll let him lead the grand processional into Baghdad; after all; somebody has to check for land mines.

Gee; you don't suppose that Jeraldo will be "cancelled" the same way as they do for outgoing Soap Opera Stars, do you?

That sort of cancellation under those conditions could be for keeps!