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Top General: Let Soldiers Blog

Wired:

A leading general and former top military spokesman in Iraq is pleading with the armed services to let troops blog and post to YouTube. 
 Too bad the video site is banned on military nets, and Army rules
squeeze military bloggers, hard.  Greg Grant notes, politely, that
Caldwell’s “recommendation that appears to run counter to Pentagon policy.”

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    • From Germany it looks a bit frightening to me, how little freedom your troops have. Isn't America the big buckler of freedom for the western world?

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