the cheapest p.r. agency in the smallest backwater mud-hut village anywhere on the entire planet would tell you that you take care of that before you call the news conference. (though it was hilarious just now to hear wolf blitzer refer to it as "dramatic," because he has no idea whether it was dramatic or not. might be that the bad guys drove him/her to the front line and said, "take. drive us crazy. talk talk talk all the time.")
anyway, the pentagon does not need a pissed-off press corps in doha right now, but that's certainly what they have. and i don't blame the press corps in the slightest in this case.
dep