U.S. shutting down soldiers' blogs

Troops are detailing their experiences in online journals, but military says some are revealing too much

BY JOSEPH MALLIA
STAFF WRITER

January 2, 2006

Letters home filled with tales of death and danger, bravery and boredom are a wartime certainty.

And now, as hundreds of soldiers overseas have started keeping Internet journals about the heat, the homesickness, the bloodshed, word speeds from the battlefront faster than ever.

More and more, though, U.S. military commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan are clamping down on these military Web logs, known as milblogs.

After all, digital photos of blown-up tanks and gritty comments on urban warfare don't just interest mom and dad.

The enemy, too, has a laptop and satellite link.

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able to see first hand what was going on.

Now, Limbaugh goes over Armed Forces Radio and the infantry man is silenced.

home mailing address and you can mail me letters of what is going on and I will put them online ver batim.

Email me. Seriously, the truth must get out there.

body bags, the wounded, both civilian and military, the firefights, the explosions, the torture, the hatred for the US, the extreme hardships inflicted on both our soldiers and civilian populations, the destruction of Iraq civil society, the coerced elections and oil contracts and laws, and a running total of human casualties and financial costs--all of it should be broadcast 24/7 on our public airwaves, to create a truly democratic and well-informed population of voters here at home, who know what they're voting for or against, and nothing else should be permitted on TV until the war is over.

Then, if we could just throw Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor,' and hold a real election, I think we'd have an end to this extended war crime real quick.