{"id":679,"date":"2006-03-06T22:12:55","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T03:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/03\/06\/message-discipline\/"},"modified":"2006-03-06T22:12:55","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T03:12:55","slug":"message-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/06\/message-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Message discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have heard that 72% of U.S. troops<\/a> in Iraq think that the U.S. should leave the country before the end of the year. Presumably that’s because they can see for themselves that it’s a bit of a sticky wicket over there. On the other hand, they don’t seem to be getting very accurate reports from the outside world, since 90% think that the war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

Hmm, I wonder why their information would be so faulty? Wonkette<\/a> reported recently on an email from a soldier stationed in Iraq, reporting that their site was blocked by the censors at the USMC Network Operations Center in Quantico. Perhaps the military doesn’t want to distract the troops with salacious stories of Washington sexcapades? In a more recent followup<\/a> (via firedoglake<\/a>), the same soldier reports on just which sites are blocked, and which our troops are allowed to spend time surfing.<\/p>\n