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Bush’s Domestic Policy Chief Wished Upon Iraq Journalists a ‘Very Loud Explosion Very Nearby’
Karl Zinsmeister, Bush’s new domestic policy adviser, 3/28/03:

Alas, many of the journalists observable in this war theater are bursting with knee-jerk suspicions and antagonisms for the warriors all around them. A significant number are whiny and appallingly soft. I almost wished there would be a very loud explosion very nearby just to shut up their rattling.

Reuters, today:

With the deaths of two CBS television crew members from a car bomb in Baghdad, the number of journalists who have died in hostile incidents in Iraq has risen to 71 - the same number killed or presumed dead during the Vietnam War.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/31/iraq-reporters/