Some US troops question Woodruff coverage

"The point that is currently being made (is that) that press folks are more important than mere military folks," a senior military officer told UPI Tuesday.

"It's just a bit frustrating to see something so dramatized that happens every day to some 20-year-old American -- or worse to 10, 30-year-old Iraqi soldiers or cops alongside us. Some of the stories don't even mention the Iraqi casualties in this attack, as if they're meaningless," wrote the officer in Baqubah.

That leaves the uncomfortable question about how much the media, or the American public, cares about the injured who are less well known, but in just as dire straits.

"Or the American public" (bullocks!)-- we didn't have a say, they blasted the news with Woodruff reports all through the weekend and into this week. This is clearly a case of "we're more concerned with the well-being of our own and because we own the media mechanism, we're going to focus on our own interests."