Silencing the soldiers and cutting off their lifeline to sanity

So all we hear is the bizarre happy talk Georgie tells us? It's too late for that, so why shut down the blogs and censor emails? That horse has long since left the barn.

“The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops’ online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.”

What will it do but cause more anger and frustration?

Update: 5/4:

To the Army's 1st Information Operations Command, the "media" is just another threat -- along with "al Qaeda," "hackers," and "drug cartels." Military bloggers are even lower than that: just poor saps looking for a "therapeutic" way to get out their feelings. No wonder the Army has put out new rules that could very well kill the sites off.