And what did you report on the Iraq war, Daddy?

So what's going on in Iraq, really? I mean like in really really? Well it all depends on the location of the place that you are looking from. Keep in mind that none of us know what is going on in the street outside of our apartments and homes; there could be two murders taking place, a gang confrontation, or just tranquility. We have no way of knowing unless we change our observation post. I was in a battle, was fucking positive that we lost, and was getting ready to kill myself (because capture was unthinkable) when all of a sudden Americans were running past us and jumping into our fox holes with smiles on their faces. Jesus fuck, there were dead fucking gooks all over the landscape that I only saw once I left my fox hole.

So it must be with Iraq. Most of the bloggers blogging from over there are reporting from a front, a front that is not like any other front in any other war. Their fronts are simply skirmish lines of winning troops. The "line" is actually a column that moves forward or back, killing or not killing, destroying enemy bombs. They have no view of the hundred killed in a bombing twenty miles away, or a mosque being blown up with people in it, and so on.

It is assumed that MSM "reporters" are hanging out in safe places because they don't "want to get killed." Gone are the days when the likes of reporter Ernie Pyle was afraid but reported anyway. He was a reporter who reported from the front lines, and who was finally killed in the Pacific.

The MSMers don't want to be no Pyle. They'd rather guess at what is going on. And who knows? The assholes might be correct.