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instaputz.blogspot.com - 8/8/2008

Weird.

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Say you're a U.S. soldier carrying a suitcase filled with $960,000 in shrink-wrapped bricks of newly printed $100 bills through the streets of Iraq. Would you want your picture in the paper? Given that the photo was taken by the reporter, I assume The Journal had Sgt. Keller's consent to run it. Still, doesn't this make him something of a target?

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