I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.