[lifeisstillgood]

Tl;dr

Iraq never had more than 12 embedded journalists covering 100,000 troops, and they had to be nice or get removed.

Democracy needs transparency and journalism is one of the best means of ensuring this - and it was totally strangled in Iraq so that abuses by Pro-US Iraq groups got no criticism in US - and this leads to no criticism of our military and administration. This fails to be healthy.

[vacri]

The US military learned its lesson about independent journalists in the Vietnam war.

[mattdeboard]

Your tl;dr is 100% wrong.

There were many, many times where there were more than 12 embeds.

[clebio]

The piece is just shy of 1200 words. Is a tldr really needed? Would that his analysis was longer.... Back to Hedges' books.

[Gracana]

> his

Her. Why are people still misgendering Chelsea Manning?

[clebio]

You're absolutely right about that, and I apologize. It was pure sloppiness on my part. I meant no disrespect towards or commentary on Manning.