Blog Crackdown in Iraq
August 25th, 2004

Soldiers in Iraq are blogging, but the military has shut a couple of blogs down and are reviewing others before they post. (Suggested by David Brake). [Link]

some critics worry that military officials are trying to muffle dissent from troops in the field. “I really think it has much less to do with operational security and classified secrets and more to do with American politics and how the war is seen by a public that is getting increasingly shaky about the overall venture,” says Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

Soldiers in Iraq are blogging, but the military has shut a couple of blogs down and are reviewing others before they post. (Suggested by David Brake). [Link]
some critics worry that military officials are trying to muffle dissent from troops in the field. “I really think it has much less to do with operational security and [...]

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the weblog of the soldier interviewed has now been taken down.