Yes, I noted that little tag about his self-preserving interest. The story became important once he thought he would ride unarmored.

But if he's riding on a transport truck, not a humvee, they wouldn't ordinarily be armored anyway.

Hey guy, put a sandbag under your seat to protect those cajones that may be rather small on you anyway.

Sheesh, where do they find those journo tyros?

What made me wonder about this story is this: if he's been trying to "get the story out" for weeks, what was stopping him?

Has he written about it? Has his newspaper published it? If not, why not?

If he's an embedded reporter, working for a newspaper, a story like this would have been easy to write. Did he? An archive search would help.

Because if he hasn't, then he's got some 'splain' to do.

Don't have time to say much at the moment, but I wanted to let y'all know that there is some good material on this matter at the current home page of Soldiers for the Truth:
www.sftt.org

Thanks!

transport trucks are -- or should be -- armored. They shoot at them too, you know. Probably the reason he couldn't get the story out before is because nobody in power wants bad news from Iraq.

Is self-preservation such a surprise? Were Rumsfeld and Bush concerned about body armor before it became an embarrassment for them?

That's even worse.

And maybe he helped the kid prepare the question, but if you saw the film, the applause looked genuine.