(Hat tip: Little Green Footballs.)
Kevin Sites, the embedded reporter whose footage showing the Marine shooting an enemy who was not (at that instant) offering any resistance, has some commentary on his blog.
I am not a military or American cheerleader, not a mouthpiece signed on to some institutional agenda whether I believe in it or not. I am here to ask the hard questions of the people who make the hardest decisions; ones that result in people dying or people being killed. I must remember as one journalist advised, “write in your notepad every day ‘I am not one of them.’”
Mr. Sites is giving the Marines he's embedded with very high praise. He expects to continue to be protected by them, pretty much no matter what he says about them. It says a lot about how professional he believes them to be. Really. If they wanted him dead, they wouldn't need to take any action at all. All it would take in Fallujah is a moment's inattention at the wrong time.
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