If these reporters had not been "embedded" they would have been on the sidelines, giving cynical reports about what was happening from Kuwait and Qatar.
The only reporters covering the stories in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities would have been Peter Arnett and the anti-American foreign reporters and we wouldn't have seen the same pictures that we've been seeing. They would have avoided the jubilant crowds and the positive images.
Torie Clark... The Pentagon spokeswoman with the loud jackets.