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Soldiers Blogging	Choux	12/29/05
""ANYONE wanting to hear daily insights into what it is like to be in a convoy hit by an explosion or ordered to pick up the body parts of comrades dismembered by a suicide bomber does not have to be there in person any more. Instead they just need to log on to the internet from the safety of their home or office. In a development that is worrying US military commanders in Iraq, a growing number of US soldiers - 200 at the last count - have set up their own blogs, or internet diaries, and are updating them from the battlefield. The phenomenon, helped by internet cafes at almost all US camps to permit soldiers regular contact with home, has for the first time allowed personal reports of the reality of combat to be read as they happen."" Do you thing the Military should prohibit soldiews from blogging????
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ETWolverine		12/30/05
As long as no military secrets or troop/equipment dispositions are listed, no I don't have a problem with it. But have you actually seen the blogs in question? Almost all of them describe the horror of war. But also, almost all of them say that it is worth the sacrafice, and that they would do it again. Almost all of them feel that the war is a righteous one, and that it needs to be fought. And almost all of them discuss the accomplishments that the MSM doesn't touch. I think that such blogs are good for morale, not detrimental. Besides, who more than our soldiers have earned the right to air their oppinions in a public forum? So again, as long as nobody is breaking the various rules of secrecy, let them have their say. Elliot

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