Scaredy Cats

According to Deputy moron Paul Wolfowitz, the problem in Iraq is not that it's so dangerous nobody can leave their house, but that journalists are a bunch of cowards:

Here's what the deputy secretary of defense had to say this week on Capitol Hill:

"Frankly, part of our problem is a lot of the press are afraid to travel very much, so they sit in Baghdad and they publish rumors."

Rumors that explode in government buildings and police stations all over the country, killing 89 and wounding 318. Those kinds of rumors. Tell you what, Edward R. Wolfowitz, why don't you stand out on the front lines with a mike and a camera crew and start reporting? The problem isn't that the press is afraid to travel, you dolt, the problem is that EVERYONE is afraid to travel! Because they risk being beheaded or blown to bits. Due to an insurgency you practically created.

Sometimes I choke on the bile that rises in my throat at these times. I need a moment.

UPDATE: Apparently those scaredy cat journalists are doing something Wolfowitz and the chickenhawks aren't doing: dying for their country.

JOURNALIST DEATHS

Iraq is currently the most dangerous place in the world to work as a journalist. The total number of international media workers killed in Iraq is 30, including 8 who worked for U.S. companies. Of the total, 21 have been killed since President Bush formally declared the end of the war in May 2003. U.S. forces are responsible for at least nine deaths, including employees from the BBC, Reuters, ITN, U.S. ABC network, Arab TV stations al-Arabiya and al-Jazeera and Spanish station Telecinco. In addition, the United States has put journalists in danger by conducting strikes against known media locations. Another level of threat to journalists has come from insurgents who appear to be systematically targeting foreigners, including journalists, and Iraqis who work for them.

It must be hard for all those journalists to get killed while their hiding in their hotel rooms. Hmm. Those showers must be dangerous.