[Jacob]

"If soldiers go around and commit war crimes then they have no one other than themselves to blame for the consequences."

Not all Soldiers go around committing war crimes. But you can guarantee that they'll get targetted too, purely for the fact they're with the Coalition and the tossers in the army give the Coalition a bad name.

"People who think that holding a gun and shooting people is a good, fun thing to do."

So, it's nothing to do with wanting to protect their country, then?

Everybody seems to be really anti-Coalition here. The vast majority of the Soldiers are doing what they're supposed to - they're not going around shooting innocents or humiliating prisoners, yet when we see images of Soldiers doing this, it spreads discontent and hatred.

If there was a temporary Media black-out, then chances are we wouldn't have so many Coalition casualties, because people wouldn't read what the Soldiers in the minority did and thus wouldn't go around taking revenge by blowing themselves up near a group of innocent Soldiers.

It's a vicious circle - Innocent Iraqi killed - Iraqi's get revenge by killing Soldiers - Soldiers they kill were the "good kind" (for lack of a better phrase) - So the remaining Soldiers get revenge by killing innocents etc.

If we took the publicity out of the equation, then it'd stop it in it's tracks.

I'm not saying we shouldn't know (though, why we should know what our Soldiers do hasn't been answered yet) or that the Soldiers who commit such acts shouldn't face reprisals. I'm merely saying that to advertise such atrocities only makes matters worse, not better, and since you all seem to be the kind of people who're all "OH MY GOD! WHAT AN AWFUL THING TO HAPPEN! THIS IS TRAGIC!" i'd've thought you'd appreciate that when things get worse - people die. Namely the innocents.