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To: haqihana who wrote (78395)	10/17/2004 3:39:27 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

I didn't make the incident, regardless of what really happened, a political thing, but the media did, and that was to embarrass Bush, if at all possible. I hear the opinion that you're restating but I have not yet heard any basis for it. You're entitled to your opinion but I would need some evidence or rationale before I could entertain it. It's not intuitively obvious to me. They could have, and should have, not printed the event. Such things hamper our military in achieving their missions. I agree that airing this stuff can be problematic. After soldier called mom and mom called the media at here daughter's request, though, ain't no media outlet in the world that won't publish unless it's life and death security matter. That's just the way it is. If you want to blame someone for the publication, blame the daughter for asking her mom to circumvent the military on her behalf. Or the military for not training her better. Or the military for giving troops access to phones and email and the like so she could blab to her mom in the first place. I don't think you can blame the media for publishing news.