This strikes me as an important story, if only for the fact that I'm sure it isn't isolated, but is rarely talked about.
A soldier in Iraq, who wrote the blog "All the King's Horses", has apparently been shut down. His last entry says this:
For the record, I am officially a supporter of the administration and of her policies. I am a proponent for the war against terror and I believe in the mission in Iraq. I understand my role in that mission, and I accept it. I understand that I signed the contract which makes stop loss legal, and I retract any statements I made in the past that contradict this one. Furthermore, I have the utmost confidence in the leadership of my chain of command, including (but not limited to) the president George Bush and the honorable secretary of defense Rumsfeld. If I have ever written anything on this site or on others that lead the reader to believe otherwise, please consider this a full and complete retraction.
There's more to the story over here. I'm not in any way qualified to speak to the legalities involved when it comes to what boundaries there are for enlisted men when it comes to speech, but it should be noted that there are soldiers who are serving, and they aren't sure about their mission anymore. That those voices are silenced is sad and demoralizing, even if it is legal.
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