Quote: Matter-eater Man said: This really gets into the propaganda part of the war IMHO. If a high ranking official say's something like "Actually, it's quite a lot of fun to fight; you know, it's a hell of a hoot. I like brawling; it's fun to shoot some people." that might not endear our troops to the folks their trying to help. It makes it harder for our troops & helps the bad guys. It could equate to more dead Americans. A slap on the wrist is appropiate.
Then, perhaps, the answer is for the liberal media to stop acting as this war's version of "Tokyo Rose" and stop spending so much time publicizing every screw up or intemperate comment our troops make.
Seriously. During WWII do you think the media did nothing but report the mistakes and failures of Patten, Eisenhower, etc., or instances of abuse of POWs?
No. Then the media was smart enough to know that such reports played into the hands of the enemy.
These days, however, the media is more interested in promoting its own anti-Bush agenda by playing up the failures regardless of how it looks to the terrorists and their allies.
