It looks, as the old shaggy dog goes, like the fit is about to hit the shan. Your blog is a first, bringing honest, first hand news about an evolving event of national importance. It is phenomenal. Thank you.

Stay low and move fast.

Thank you guys 4 your front-line perspective. Stay safe.

thank you for having the bollocks to give it straight instead of the regular media's readers digest version or worse yet the censored version.
check out project censored. good site.

Am glad you're guest blog - v.timely. Like the unedited, straight from where it's happening feel to your posts. Interesting. Informative. Thank you. Stay safe.

Do you have to leave? I thought of you as Bush gave his address, saying that he suggests all journalists - among others - leave the area. How are you feeling right now? If I put myself in your shoes (as best I could), I think I'd be torn between my passion for journalism and my natural instinct for self-preservation. I think I'd have some fear, but hopefully wouldn't live IN my fear. God bless you.

Question. Did you type this into the box, as I'm typing now, or write it in Word (or something like it) and then post it at once?

I ask only because this is really first-class writing, but you're supposed to be a TV journalist, hence more interested in pictures than in text.

The text is great. Really, really great stuff. Great writing. Give yourself a hand.

Dana --

Xeni, John or Kevin himself may be able to give a better answer but here's how I think we have it setup:

1) For the audio blogs, he uses his satellite phone and it uploads directly.

2) For the text posts, he writes them ahead of time, and when it comes time to post to the site, he just copies the story into the story box all at once.

3) The "warboy" stories were sent a few days ago via email and have been put formatted and posted on the site by Xeni.

I hope that helps. This site is truly a great source of real information about what it is like in Iraq right now and it will only get better. Be sure to tell your peers and colleagues.

-david u.

Vision is the path, not the promise.

With the future more frightening than ever, it is imperative that the united nations is viewed as a legitimate foundation of power. Our contry behaving in this
manner not only destroys that, it destroys twenty years of progress getting to this point. The world is not our responsibility, the world is the world's responsibility. This is not about democracy, it is about oil and everyone knows it. Hiding behind the face of democracy when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line is not democracy, it is hypocrisy. And our government should be ashamed for wearing that mask. If we as citizens need to see women and children standing in the streets of Baghdad waving small American flags as the tanks and cameras roll through, to free OURSELVES from the stock market and the unemployment lines and the fact that the majority of the world is growing to hate us, then we need to examine the meaning of freedom. No one is arguing that Saddam is anything other than a tyrant, but behaving like a tyrant to disarm a tyrant is gasoline in the fires of hatred. Always has been, always will be.

Keep your insight flowing Kevin, and be safe. The truth can make a difference.

A terrific use of the blogging phenomena. Although "enjoy" is not a word I would apply to this, I find it very informative. Truly, this will be the best coevred war ever.

Thank you, Kevin and Crew

I truly admire your guts.

In the words of Hill Street Blues, "just be careful out there."

wherever you go i hope you stay out of harms way, i'm so proud of you. seeing these messages helps me to understand what drives you to do this job. we are all so fortunate that you have the courage to get in the middle of this and risk everything to tell the story. come home safe.

Kevin,

How many other "serious" reporters, that you are aware of, use blogs to relay news/immediate info to their readers?

What are you hearing, regarding the Northern Irag vs. Turkey scenario. Given the recent Turkish hold (at least to this point!) on allowing the establishment of US troops on the Turkish/Irag border

My feelings on this situation, is that the northern Iraqi people as well as the US, are better of in not allowing Turkish forces to be part of the attacking allied forces -which would otherwise allow essntially for a kind of (carte blanche)for Turkey, on northern Iraq's territory/resources and it's People!
Since Turkey backed away in allowing US troops to stage a norhtern military presence, this will allow the US to hold Turkey at arms length, when it comes to Iraq and thus will help greatly in avoiding one huge Northern Iraq/Turkey catastrophe/civil war/slaughter! What are your thoughts on this!

Kevin, stay low and keep one eye to your back.

Now that there seems no way of silencing the drums of war, I would like to say, as an ancient European king said to an invader: ‘May your morning be a beautiful one, may the sun shine on your soldiers’ armour, for in the afternoon, I will defeat you.’

Thank from Las Palmas, Jalisco, Mexico.

Thank you for this weblog! This is exactly what my friends and I have been looking for.

There's nothing like the truth--so realize that my next comment fully acknowledges the importance of journalism--for good and ill.

I don't know whether you deliberately or inadvertently raised this issue: But of course I thought when reading this post about the fact that you and others are benefitting from war. That careers are made on war. And that there could--in some cases--be something morally problematic about that.