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>We've been conditioned, alright, the question is by whom? During the Gulf War, if the reporters had their way they would have reported every movement and statistic of the allied forces.
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Jerry,

The conditioning starts before the actions get underway.
The most famous conditioning for the Gulf war was the teenaged young lady before a Senate sub-committee who sobbed uncontrollably as she told the first-hand account of babies in incubators being crashed to the floor and kicked around by Iraqi soldiers. Only trouble was, it turned out, she was nowhere near Kuwait at that time and was the daughter of a high-ranking Kuaiti official who had used a different name when she testified before Congress.
There was more, but they don't come readily to mind like that one.

In the present case there is far far less need for conditioning. Hell, I'm ready to go get them too! Nonetheless, there will be felt a need to do some conditioning, just to assure the highest concurrence possible.
Maybe, for instance, these reports of several of the hijackers being out spending big bucks on booze and table-dances down in Fla. a day or two before the events unfolded is such an example. Who can say?

Finally, it surely would be the ultimate in stupidity for the military to advise the press in advance of any intended action. Cause we know damned well that the press would cheerily report it ('just doing my job') as soon as they learned it.
But I believe that the military should be truthful in what it does report, when they choose to report something.