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...CA: For the entire time I was there, I was wondering how on earth I would get out. At that point, we were outside of Baghdad. I guess the next stage would have been the Battle of Baghdad. I just thought, I'd done my nine days. I'd gotten some big stories in the newspaper. I was terrified. I wasn't cut out for this. I never wanted to be a war correspondent. I hadn't expected to be on the front line. I thought I was going to be positioned somewhere on a military base, or whatever...
...CA: It is crazy. But I think many of those deaths were from people who weren't protected by the military, who decided to do their own thing, which in my opinion was just insane. I just can't imagine it. One of the themes in the book is that journalists are just as much targets as anybody else now. After Danny Pearl's horrible experience in Pakistan, as a white journalist with a British or American passport, you can fully expect to be paraded on TV and possibly killed on video, and have it circulated around the Internet. Journalists...
...What do you think on balance of embedding reporters? Do you believe in it? CA: Yes. I think the embedded scheme is excellent. I just think that as an embedded journalist, you have a responsibility to explicitly state your lack of objectivity, and your lack of information as well on the battlefield. If you explicitly acknowledge those two things, I think the embedded scheme can [yield] some great, unique journalism that would not be available otherwise...
...CA: It's hard to say. I got on okay with the Marines, which hopefully comes across in the book. But it was like a cat and wild dogs staring at each other. It was completely different species. We were from such different worlds. I knew that the last thing they probably wanted was to have me sort of sitting there. I would like to think that I wasn't outwardly terrified, but I did ask a lot of annoying questions. Having me write about them must be just a really disconcerting experience. Having some guy you've never...
...CA: I liked them a lot, actually. What amazed me about the Marines is that it was just like being in any other profession. I had a stereotypical view of anybody who joins the military. My opinion of people who joined the military was pretty much they must be sort of gung-ho, slightly crazed people who enjoy bar brawls and truck magazines. But in fact, it was a just a normal cross-section of society. You had the bookish Marines, you had the sporty marines, you had the geeky Marines. Every walk of life was represented. The only thing...