"I seriously question who these restrictions are for."

No, you don't, Mr. Kamber. Who are you kidding with that naive remark?

EVERYONE who has paid any attention at all to these events knows that this administration has a long and very well documented history of creating policy after policy that prevents the press from fairly reporting on the Iraq war in the obvious aim of preventing negative news of the war to reach the American people.

It is your duty to us all, especially the troops, to speak about what you know regarding these restrictions on our, so called, "frredom of the press".

If you are going to report, have some cojones and say what we all already know.

Shout it from the mountaintop. That is your job.

Tell us Mr. Kamber: Why is it that we never see pictures of all the caskets of our fallen soldiers that come back home for burial in the mass media?

It's all part of controlling all the news all the time. Freedom of the press, what a quaint idea. Just keep telling the people how free they are. The idea of patriotism in this country is waving a big flag and never questioning what the government is doing. Most people don't have any idea about the miltary bases being built in Iraq or the giant new embassy. The truth and what is reported are two different things.

if you don't show pictures of katrina, it didn't happen. funny how these right wingers w/their absolute morality about some really selective issues are really post-modernists when it comes to war: image is everything, rhetoric is reality.

well, perhaps they are not that sophisticated. just opportunistic thugs.

If we ignore reality, maybe it will go away.

A different look at the liberation of Iraq -
http://www.wordsareimportant.com/lifeisbeautiful.htm

Mainstream media is the one who is letting democracy down. I'm not talking about not showing some pictures. I'm talking about not reporting the truth, while they insist they are. That is the greater crime.

www.NotOneMore.US - The Pledge for Peace

President Bush said "the American people are sacrificing a lot by watching the violence happening in Iraq."

Don't you see? Hes just looking out for us.

To all embedded journalists:
They are intent on taking away the public's right to know. Take the pictures with digital cameras and publish them online, anonymously if you have to. That could be one way to get the truth out past the censors.

The media, if they had any backbone, would refuse these conditions. Recently the German press did. While in Germany, Bush was going to hold a press conference. His people gave the German press a list of questions they were "allowed" to ask. Highly offended, the German reporters refused to cover the press conference. Germans have had experience with that kind of censorship before. The American media could learn from those German reporters.

Will the media now publish and broadcast photos of Iraqis showering the "liberators" with flowers?

Yes - Journalists and photographers have seen much of the world. How is it then that they still have a naive idea that the system is just? They should publish the stories that they are disallowed to by the official army rules. Of course there will be consequences, but this is part of being a journalist. If journalists expect their careers to be risk-free with lifelong job security, then they are not being realistic and they will fail the public. This is not just, and we must struggle to recognize our the brave journalists who do make sacrifices and defend our freedom of the press at all costs. But the admissibility of a story should not be determined by the government - it should be judged directly by the will of the people.

"Just keep telling the people how free they are."

The Oral High Ground.

The US military, still thinking it could have won the Viet-Nam war if public opinion hadn't turned against it, is doing its best to control the images and information coming out of Iraq. I think now, it is the American people who are the enemy, and the military has a very well evolved "psy-ops" campain against us. trying to "win" unjust wars has a perverse influence on the relationship between a military and the people it is supposed to serve.

There have been so many journalists killed in Iraq that out of respect for the dues that profession has paid I won't fault the journalists.

My wrath for the men in the chain of command who placed these restrictions in place however is without limit. If the true purpose was to protect the families of the wounded a 24 or 36 hour embargo on transmitting the photos would more than protect a soldier's family until the military had notified them. These regulations serve one and only one purpose; censorship. The next time you hear an officer say one freakin word about America's freedoms you can know he's spreading propaganda instead of truth.

To the journalists I would suggest that when they are sold the next pack of lies like the Jessica Lynch story or the Pat Tillman story by the chain of command that they file a formal complaint to the Sec. Def. and report on it continually till every aspect of the story is in the public domain.

The troops in the field have paid far too high a price for the mismanagement of this war of choice; the time to hold their commanders to account is long past.

As the war and threat of another war grow ever more unpopular. I would imagine there will be a whole lot more restrictions placed on journalist's. That is Bush's way of dealing with the problems. Make them go away so the public doesn't know they are even there. The public can't complain if they don't know it's going on. He has done things during his tenure in office that I would not have dreamed of a President doing. He has replaced our honorable military with little more than hired thugs. In fact, he makes Richard Nixon look like a saint. So, there is nothing that surprises me anymore when it comes to the Bush Administration.

Luckily, many soldiers are wounded beyond recognition so he can show their photos instead.

Did Brady get signed Photo releases?