The removal of inhibition can be liberating as well as criminal. Recently, a Reuters reporter expressed frustration that American soldiers stationed in Iraq would tell him nothing until he went to the latrines. “You have to go to the Port-o-Potties. For some reason, they talk there. You can read how they really feel – all the anti-Bush stuff, all the wanting to go home – in the writing on the shithouse walls.
Rose George, “The Big Necessity”
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
Piece of Mindful 
So a Reuters reporter sniffed around until he found the story he wanted. Typical.
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A journalist sniffed around and found some truth. Such people are rare – most do what you like – report official truth.
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The only “truth” reported here is that there is some dissension in the ranks of service members. So what? Does it tell us the “truth” about how pervasive those attitudes are?
This is almost meaningless but feeds your narrative (since you’re big on those these days.)
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As usual, there’s far more here than fits your narrow, narrow outlook. If you are not looking for things you will not find them.
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If you stare at something long enough you’ll begin to hallucinate. Feh!
I don’t dismiss that there might be a lot of attitude that the public doesn’t know about. All I know is that this doesn’t prove much.
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Honest – I never said it did. Sometimes I run across passages that strike me as interesting. This is taken from a book I’m reading about shit.
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BTW – this came up in my email as a Fred comment, which is why I was testy. Of course it would be wrong to read too much into this statement – I just thought it interesting. It was a reporter trying to get his subjects to be candid. Yeah, he mentioned anti-Bush and stuff, but that was incidental. If they said they were sick of the food, it wouldn’t be as interesting.
Other sources, like returning vets, talk of anti-Bush anti-war sentiments, which are more widespread than you admit.
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Pravda!
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Fox.
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