Ironic, isn't it? Initially I thought that the embedded reporters might be a good idea. I mean, how can you continue to hate the U.S. when you are right there seeing first hand what is really going on, but the longer this goes on, the more I think we need to pull these people out of there. It seems that not only are some of them actually jeopardizing the troops, but it also seems that some of them are already trying to skew events to reflect their preconceived points of view. This could have very bad implications in the sorting out of events following the war, particularly if any trials are involved. As satisfying as it is to get the reports immediatedly and first hand, for those of us that follow such things particularly, it isn't going to kill us to have to wait a little longer in the interest of letting our troops do their job free from concern with playing to the cameras and with protecting yet another group of antagonistic civilians. I can't help but wonder how many times one of our guys has had the urge to punch one of them in the mouth.
Well, I thought it was a bad idea but I have changed my mind. We are seeing the reporters true colors. Some foolish, some anti American and some very patriotic. I think Fox chose wisely (most of the time :')). Oliver North doing great. Rick Leventhal(?) impressive too, even though I wondered if he had enlisted. It's "we" this and "we" that and if someone wasn't sitting really close to him yesterday talking, I think it was him calling out to a solider (by name) to "watch out and then yelled don't shoot him, he's surrendering "lol