[antimedia] antimedia: What greater condemnation of the media's coverage....

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What greater condemnation of the media's coverage....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1167453271.shtml


   ....of Iraq could you have than [1]this from Michael Yon.

     This war is strange. I never hear soldiers worried about their own
     morale sagging. Contrary, the war-fighters here are more concerned
     to bolster the morale of the people at home. Here in Kuwait, where
     the dining facilities are bedecked in Christmas decorations,
     soldiers stream in from Iraq on convoys and stream back north along
     those bomb-laden roads. The service members here are not all
     rear-echelon people who never see fighting or blood. Yet their
     overall morale obviously is high. Few of them know I am a writer,
     and so they speak freely at the tables around me. In Qatar, from
     which Iâd just departed, I spoke with troops taking four-day R&R
     passes, some having just returned from the most dangerous parts of
     Iraq, and others heading straight back, and their overall morale
     was also very high. The morale at war is higher than I have ever
     seen it at home; makes me wonder what they know that most Americans
     seem to be missing. (Emphasis mine.)

   Needs no elaboartion. (Hat tip to [2]Milblogs.)

References

   1. http://michaelyon-online.com/wp/christmas-in-kuwait-qatar-and-hanoi-and-singapore-and-jakarta.htm
   2. http://www.mudvillegazette.com/milblogs/2006/12/30/#007417