It is impossible to offer prayers or best wishes (depending on your own beliefs) for Woodruff and Vogt without including the same for American and Iraqi service people and civilians. I too wish both men a full recovery. I hear that they both suffered severe head injuries, which does not bode well - but hope springs eternal.

I wish Woodruff and Vogt well, but it is very difficult for me to muster any more sympathy for people that are paid in one month what it takes those soldiers a year of more to make, expecially considering the soldiers are in harms way 12 or more months at a time.

I pray for them all.

You will probably ban me from this site for saying so, but your complaint that Woodruff might have just been attempting to get some "street cred" is so indecent as to place you among those commenters who deserve no respect whatsoever. Shame on you. This man has four children and a wife. He is compassionate, decent, honest, and he did not have to go to Iraq. No one would have thought the worse of him if he didn't. But he went. And from various reports, he was in a Iraqi vehicle, not an American vehicle, when the convoy was hit. (I am still awaiting confirmation on that issue.) In any event, he went to Iraq to spend time with the troops. To report from there. He's an anchor for God sakes, and therefore to expect him to be Ernie Pyle is simply unrealistic and beside the point. The man went to Iraq and put himself in harm's way to report life from the soldier's perspective, if only for a day or too. He did what right wingers want - he went into the field to report the truth. And he got hit by the enemy. And you are not "touch[ed]."

You are the embodiment of the right wing today. Shame on you. After all, have you no decency?

I hope for a speedy recovery for both Bob Woodruff & Doug Vogt . I also believe that this embedding w/the troops in Iraq is a lousy idea. It's not only life threatening, it's an extremely dangerous way to get news to network viewers. I say, in order to stay out of harm's way, we should bring the journalists & the troops home now.

I want to thank all the unsung heroes of this unholy war; every special-ops sniper that takes out a terrorist saves the lives of 50 or more people; Iraqis and American alike.

mkultra,

I'm sorry to inform you of reality, but this kind of reporting is often done for "street cred" - instant credibility for career advancement - whether you like that inconvenient fact, or not. That he cannot gather the "soldier's perspective" in a quick junket seems to be beyond your grasp.

As for reporting the truth... well he would have certainly put an interesting spin on what he was unable to actually grasp in his short trip. I'm sorry if I've simply seen too much of this kind of reporting to feel that he could have brought how anything other than some filler footage to go with the preconceptions that he brought with him.

He wasn't interested in truth anymore than you are.

Rick,

You just don't quite grasp the "kill them thre so we don't have them killing us here" concept.

Color me unsurprised. And please, please try to tell me their were no terrorists in Iraq before we invaded.

According to Michelle Malkin, there were 4 American soldiers injured in the IED attack. No information on whether Woodruff & Vogt were in an American vehicle, but it appears so.

I had a friend killed by an IED last week. He and another soldier in his vehicle were killed. The driver and interpreter are still in the hospital in serious condition.

http://bluestarchronicles.blogspot.com/2006/01/american-strength.html

They were soldiers trying to train Iraqi soldiers. Doing it day in and day out.

I wish the reporters a complete recovery as well. But I hope we don't forget the ones who are making long-term sacrifice with little or no recognition.

Redneck-Yankee or whatever you call yourself.
You sir, are a #@&* FOOL!!