Jackonicko, you have absolutely no idea. You are full of such pompous, self importance but do a great diservice to the the very few real reporters who know how to report a war. Every one of the people on here who have sickened me and many others with their hand-wringing, liberal, knicker wetting shock and horror at the pictures of the US troops whooping at the hit of the missile have never, ever, (obviously) been in the military in the front line as a combat soldier.
G.Khan summarises it best. Jacko and the others who are so far up their own backsides with their pompous pontifications about how the soldiers should behave. Just because there is some teat sucking reporter present with a camera who has very obviously no idea about what is going on around him, the soldiers are expected to alter their behaviour so as not to offend the sensibilites of the Nintendo audience.
War is horrific, and I don't mean those skirmishes that we witnessed yesterday, yet we have the hand wringers who spout off about the freedoms they have thanks to the young men and women who are out on the front lines and they still try and tell us how put out they are at the typical behaviour of
ANY front line combat soldier who is in action and on the winning side of a skirmish just like we saw yesterday.
Just keep the reporters with the back up/logistics troops. To have anal retentive, sanctimonious reporters preach about the actions or morals of our allied troops behaviour in the middle of a skirmish is just the limit.
