CNN REPORTER/PRODUCER KILLED IN IRAQ

msnbc | 1-27-04 | DFU

[BureaucratusMaximus]

In fact, expect more praise for terrorists from CNN now. Rewarding your enemies when they attack you is the essence of appeasement.

In fact, expect more praise for terrorists from CNN now. Rewarding your enemies when they attack you is the essence of appeasement delusional insanity.

[MattinNJ]

You can't be proud of that post?

Your right, I'm not. I regretted it the second I hit the post button.

[jpl]

In case anyone cares, the names of the two guys that were killed were Duraid Isa Mohammed and Yasser Khatab. A third guy, a cameraman named Scott McWhinnie, was grazed in the head by a bullet but is still alive.

[leadpenny]

We all have regrets. Mods will delete things for ya in a flash. No harm - No foul.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Me thinks the mods are watching this thread VERY closely.

No doubt. I mean come on. Liberal-biased or not...these are innocents that have been murdered. IMHO...As conservatives, we're supposed to be better than wishing death for a couple of CNN workers, no matter how much they're funded by the DNC. Wishing death upon political enemies is sooo.... liberal. Our moral and conservative principles and ideals is what makes us different from the left. I plead that we don't sink to their level. It only is a detriment to this site and to conservatives as a whole.

/rant off

[null and void]

Are you happy with post number eight?

Not particularly, but CNN has a pretty clear record of being the friends of the enemies of the United States.

Would you want the families of those slain to read what you wrote?

No, unless they understood that the 'friends' I am referring to are CNN, not their loved ones.

[demlosers]

Hey DUmmy lurkers! I wouldn't be casting stones at FReepers. I've read multiple DU posts where you dudes cheered on deaths in Iraq.

[BlessedBeGod]

Your posts really make me sick. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[TexKat]

I believe Fox News reported that the CNN employee who was in the first car scalp was grazed by a bullet by some mideasterners that drove up to the CNN 2 car convoy and opened fire from the sunroof on the first CNN vehicle. Occupant in the first CNN vehicle returned fire and then the mideasterners backed off and shot the occupants (translator and driver) of the second vehicle.

God bless and strengthen the families of those that were killed by these terrorist animals.

[Smile-n-Win]

Anybody that gloats at the death of others is waayyy beyond cynical.

"Gloat" is not the word I would use, but ... if you heard that Osama bin Laden had just died, wouldn't you at least feel relieved? When a murderer dies, it means he won't kill any more innocent people, so there is nothing cynical about reacting with relief (or some similar positive feeling).

BTW I don't think gloating is a positive feeling--it's what a cynic has as an ersatz for positive feelings. Just a philosophical point. :-)

[maestro]

Why is CNN in Iraq at all?

For that matter,.....why is CNN anywhere?

:-(

[jungleboy]

Saddam's brother?

[null and void]

As I said, I was just noting that the mods are watching, not complaining about it.

This is clearly a topic that even the best of us are apt to post first and regret later.

[Eagle Eye]

IMO, none of these attackers are cowards. It takes more courage to ambush than to sit at home and let someone else do it.

This isn't personal. It's business. Just a very high stakes business.

We are an occupying force. They are resistors. We occupy, they resist. I don't admire what they do, but I understand it and don't take it personal. Nor, to the best of my knowledge, do the troops. It's business.

[McGruff]

No harm - No foul.

Not true. Those words will remain forever here.

[clintonh8r]

Far be it from me to pass judgement on the appropriateness of some posts, but....I think there's some frustration that we can reasonably anticipate CNN's respose to this kind of thing to be a little too, shall we say, "measured". It seems unlikely that their on-air policy will be to call for retribution against those who perpetrate murder, and to finally admit that there is an obvious struggle between good and evil going on. Somehow, it will be US policy, specifically the administration's policy, that will be at least partly to blame. So, while I feel sadness and sorrow for the victims and their families, I still detest CNN, its management, and most of its employees.

[jpl]

This isn't personal. It's business. Just a very high stakes business.

We are an occupying force. They are resistors. We occupy, they resist. I don't admire what they do, but I understand it and don't take it personal. Nor, to the best of my knowledge, do the troops. It's business.

But surely you're not saying that journalists are legitimate military targets?

[blackie]

Death to all terrorists!

[yonif]

I think most of those who are killing Americans there are doing so not because they are resisting the occupation per say, but because of the opprotunity to kill Americans. I'll bet some of these terrorists didn't even support Saddam, because he wasn't religious enough for them. That is why the capture of Saddam will not really decrease attacks. These terrorists will continue to come in and try to kill as many Americans as they can. They are united in that. If they win, then they would probably start fighting between each other's terror platforms over the governing of Iraq.

In addition, the capture of Saddam will only help one thing - increase the confidence of the Iraqi people and therefore increase their help in combating these terrorists, because they will not be scared of Saddam coming back to punish them.