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the G-man said:
Someone needs to explain to these damn reporters that Fallujah is not LA, our soldier's are not cops and terrorists are not Rodney King.

I'm sure that, for example, things like this happened in WWII also, but back then our war correspondents knew better than to broadcast the fact, for fear it would undermine the troops.

Maybe that soldier was wrong, but broadcasting the images doesn't do anything other than serve as propaganda for the enemy.



You are the definition of a cop-out. That's some fucked up Nazi-esque logic that you're using.


If the facts of a war outweigh the "good", then you're in trouble. Let's hear the good, the bad, and the ugly. If the facts undermine our troops more than the good helps them, then we are involved in a pretty pathetic little war.

Your logic can be used to justify just about fucking anything. Let's say there's German reporter back in 1940 has learned about how bad the Nazi's are being, and has the power to broadcast it to every German without being censored. Should this reporter broadcast this footage, or would that hurt the troops? That's just fucking pathetic.