In the past soldiers used to write home and the letters took ages to arrive and they were often censored.
Soldiers when they went back home were notoriously reticent when talking about things that happened in a battle field.
Now we have the Internet and soldiers in Iraq send videos which in many cases prove to be embarassing.
Already embarrassed by the notorious Abu Ghraib prison abuse photos, the US government has successfully shut down some of the more extreme "war porn" websites.
But in truth it is almost impossible to keep track of this stuff - hence the attempt to stop it at source by banning laptops from US military camps in Iraq.
This is because they were exporting democracy to Iraq.
