Why are cameras imbedded with our troops?

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Why are Cameras imbedded with our troops?

While you are getting dressed in the morning and wondering what happened to Today (NBC), Good Morning America (ABC), or The Early Show (CBS) ask your self the question: ?Why are cameras imbedded into our military??

This has never happened before. There wasn?t a precedent set. This is a new and uncharted move by our government. It?s an interesting move that deserves examination.

Like it or not we are all involved with the war. We all follow the (insert # here) Cavalry, the (random # here) Medic Squad all over Iraq and throughout the Middle East. Why do we need this coverage? Isn?t it harmful to our troops to alert people to where they are, where they are going, and where to shoot at them?

It?s not just the bottom rung of reporters are put in harms way. Big names such as Ted Koppel and Dan Rather have been at or near the front lines. This star power seems odd to me. Usually the lowest ranking weatherman has to go into the storm and report about the tornado not the #1 Meteorologist at the station. Why is this war different?

Why is the entire media giant in the Untied States so wrapped up in the little details of this war. One death is too many. I send my condolences to any and all family and loved ones of our troops. That aside, a little more then a million American troops have died in military conflict. This is a war, why is it news when a battalion is shot upon?

Why is the poor family of a captured solider paraded across the screen? Why are they interviewed only to say, ?Johnny loved life, loved the USA, and loved his dog?? Why are cameras sent to their homes and why are they made to dig up childhood pictures of these soldiers? Do we want these people to suffer on camera?
 

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Many questions follow this war. I think the answers are all yet to be provided. The cameras are there to provide the answers and to rally American support. The Iraqis will use ?chemical weapons? and the cameras are there for proof. The cameras are our government?s way to say, ?I told you so?. If a ?star? journalist gets killed in the meantime, then it will give free exposure on how cruel the enemy is. We may say different, our government needs Iraq to use chemical weapons. We need to prove to the international contingency that we are not blindly attacking a country and that they are harboring evil weaponry.

The cameras are present to show Americans giving food to the hungry.

The cameras are there for any propaganda shot of the Iraqis hitting posters of Saddam with shoes.

The cameras are around for the suffering and death that follow a chemical attack.

America?s standing on a global scale is shaky at best right now. We look like the big bully beating up the little kid on the playground while the other nations sit around and wonder if they are next. We need these cameras to show that America isn?t a warmongering cowboy nation.

That is why we have cameras imbedded with our troops.
 
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