The newest aspect of war

“In the beginning days of the war, the Commander of “Coalition Forces” General Tommy Franks had told journalists in Doha that: This will be an unprecedented war. And we then had thought that weapons, similar to that of space movies, will be employed. For example, the “flash guns” of American soldiers will instantly annihilate (killing is not enough) Iraqi soldiers. “… We know that new and skillful bomb are being used right now, even though there are some mentally-retarded Tomahawk missiles falling to our Urfa instead of Iraq. Still, at least as a civilian, we can not say that we are seeing thing very different than 12 years ago.“Except one thing: the embedded journalists, This time journalists went to the fore fronts of war along with troops. This embedded term means that they have turned into members of military units, under this special title. These are journalists who were trained on what could be done and what could not be done in war conditions and have been committed. In fact, we are watching these journalists on screen. They are reporting from places where heavy machine guns are vomiting death. They are carrying war inside our homes. “This new practice was apparently not devised by Franks or Pentagon to make us happy. They wanted to carry out a high-valued propaganda to show us Iraqis, and especially Shiites to run with flowers in their hands to the U.S. soldiers as “They were waiting to be rescued by them.” “However, calculations proved wrong and in short time, American armies confronted bullets instead. Besides, “Embedded journalists” carried out to the screens, the fatigue and hesitating image of American soldiers. We must congratulate those deciding to employ embedded journalists… �