Critics of the war coverage in Iraq owe Kimberly Dozier an apology.

"One thing I don't want to hear anymore," Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, told The New York Times's Bill Carter in the wake of the car bomb attack in Iraq that left two CBS News personnel dead and one critically injured, "is people like Laura Ingraham spewing about us not leaving our balconies in the Green Zone to cover what's really happening in Iraq."

Ingraham has come under quite a bit of fire for her March 21 comments on NBC's "Today," where she said the following to David Gregory:

David, to do a show from Iraq means to talk to the Iraqi military. To go out with the Iraqi military, to actually have a conversation with the people, instead of reporting from hotel balconies about the latest IEDs going off.

Ingraham had gone to Iraq for eight days, and while she was there, she says she "wasn't in a hotel balcony. I was out with the U.S. military." CBS News' Lara Logan, appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources," called Ingraham's statements "outrageous" in an interview two months after ABC's Bob Woodruff sustained serious injuries while reporting in Iraq. "I think it's an outrage to point the finger at journalists and say that this is our fault. I really do. And I think it shows an abject lack of respect for any journalist that's prepared to come to this country and risk their lives," she said.

The Iraq war is now considered by some to be the most dangerous in modern history for journalists, with 71 journalists and 26 support staffers killed, more than in Vietnam, Korea or World War II. Iraq is, without a doubt, an extraordinarily dangerous place. And particularly in light of what has happened to journalists in this war, one can't help but note that Ingraham decided her eight-day Iraq tour qualified her to judge journalists who risked their lives for long periods covering the conflict. Kimberly Dozier has just had shrapnel removed from her head. Paul Douglas and James Brolan are dead. And they are just three of many.

The idea that anybody sitting in their cozy office at their place of business, or in their own home, would dare to make disparaging remarks about the people who go to what is arguably the most dangerous place on the planet to report on the war is unconscionable.

I cannot imagine how stressful and downright fear inducing it must be to be driving around Iraq knowing that, at any moment, you might be killed or horribly wounded. And then to be expected to find some glimmer of positive news to report back to an anxious American audience hoping to hear that their soldiers are not just killing people indiscriminately in a foreign land.

So these reporters are supposed to drive past burned out homes and body parts lying in the street and try to find a smiling child and safe place to set up their equipment in the hopes of getting a positive story before the insurgents locate them and launch an attack?

How much do these reporters make again? What ever it is it cannot possibly be enough!

The so-called "journalists" who question the professionalism of these brave men and women are cowards! They are jealous little losers who wish they worked for a prestigious news organization intead of prostituting themselves to the right wing disinformation division, to which they all apparently belong. They are beneath contempt.