Lately hundreds of US journalists and reporters sent to Iraq

Lately hundreds of US journalists and reporters sent to Iraq have had to deal with attempts by the US military to control information. Now not only many in military blame the press for presenting independent data about what is happening in Iraq. Some members of US Congress begin also severely criticize our press for dwelling on bombing damage to civilian areas and the suffering of the Iraqi people. Take, for example, the last show of CNN video about present Iraq in the US Congress, after which the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Republican Congressman H. Duncan has proposed "to inhibit CNN journalists from moraling operations of Iraqi adversary forces". But what about the freedom of speech in our democratic society? Americans want to know the whole truth about the war in Iraq! But for such independent observations of Iraqi events we should never have known about our real losses there or about such disreputable facts as Abu Ghraib or CIA secret prisons! The Pentagon and the White House always try to hold back the truth about it, sheltering behind the phrase that "our enemies are also watching CNN-TV". But why cannot the whole world, including the enemy, see the reports of independent journalists, as it was during World War II or Vietnam War, when the press was able to broadcast directly from the battlefield? Free press, like CNN, should always have access to a war zone, because all Americans have a right to know what is really happening in Iraq. Otherwise our authorities will violate the First Amendment guarantee freedom of the press!