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Just to clarify,
It isn't quite fair to chatise this guy for being a whiner or bitch.
The embeds were precluded from asking Rumsfield questions.
So evidently one of them "consulted" with some personnel and got them to voice the questions the media were curious about.
But what's interesting in that is it troubles what I think some people in here consider about how freely our embeds are reporting. We can discuss whether a reporter *ought* to report something, but that is different as to whether they actually *can* or not. So it troubles me so much weight is given to the notion that if there were problems, we would necessarily hear about it stateside.
In this case, it seems to be embeds are seeing alarming things in regards to troop safety, there may in fact be some grumblings about it, but that is not making it from the ground to the airwaves--until things like this occur.
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