Wirt Replies:
> 
> Shawn writes:
> 
> >  You obviously missed the
> >  addition to this story that a journalist had fed the 
> questions to the
> troops.
> 
> I missed that bit of information, too, even though I just now 
> scanned all of
> the major newsfeeds for it.
> 
> Nevertheless, presuming for a moment that it's true, did the 
> "journalist"
> also somehow prompt all of the remaining troops in the room 
> to let out a large
> whoop of approval? And how did he do it? Promises of money or sex?
> 
> What disrepect. Those g*dd*mned journalists. You know that 
> they had to be
> behind this kind of thing. They hold everything that is right 
> and pure about
> America and our blessed leaders in disrepect and will do 
> almost anything to tear
> them down.
> 
> Wirt Atmar

From this October's issue of the U.S. Naval Institute's 
Proceedings pp. 37-41, first paragraph article entitled 
"Who's Responsible For Losing the Media War In Iraq?"  
James Lacey, (embedded with the 101st Airborne) quotes 
General William Tecumseh Sherman:

        "I hate newspapermen.  They come into camp and pick up
        their camp rumors and print them as facts.  I regard
        them as spies, which in truth, they are.  If I killed
        them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."

(A self-damning quote, no doubt.  But the article lays
the blame squarely on the U.S. Military.)

BT


Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors
 

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