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Quite honestly so much depends on the political build-up to the war. If immediately the invasion of Iraq the US would have imprisoned or not allowed the surrender of the iraqi army there would have been very little politcal fallout. If the US stops going out of its way to provide protection details and embed reporters with its units a suprizingly large portion of the US press would no bother to go into a hostile area. You'd see alot of reports from hotels in bagdad based almost entirely on military press releases. Only as the country became pacified would most reporters venture out into new cowed populace and its very tough to incriminate a nations military in the media in the past tense especially after you were just writting nice things about it.
As for reports of jurnalists being killed venturing out to get the news when they aren't instide of their little protection details.... those stories will get alot of shruggs and "well he was in a warzone covering a war."
I also don't understand where the news media is getting these reports of massive ammerican casualties, there are still far few than was lost in a single day in various battles throughout this countries history; especially when you consider the loss compared to percentage of the whole.
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