CBS and Dan Rather should be held accountable (Warning: Graphic photos down thread)

[jg0510]

I posted the following message on the CBS message board yesterday and also sent the same message to Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. If you agree with my message, I would appreciate it if you would forward this e-mail to others in your address book. I believe this is very important and a "grass roots" effort may be the only way to force Dan Rather, CBS, and others to accept the responsibility of their careless and destructive actions:

"I think all American citizens should be outraged at CBS for making the "abuse" pictures public. CBS has done serious damage to the relationship between the US and the Middle East and has endangered our soldiers in Iraq. This is a matter that the Army should have handled internally and privately. 60 Minutes II and Dan Rather should be answering why they choose to jeopardize the security of our soldiers and our relationship with foreign countries for their "big story"."

Since I wrote this yesterday, a US citizen working in Iraq was beheaded in retaliation. If this story had not been made public by CBS, it is doubtful this atrocity would have happened. It is time for CBS be held accountable and should appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee to explain why they have compromised the safety of Americans and our foreign policy.

Thank you for passing this information to other concerned citizens.

[keysguy]

The phone chicks at CBS gotta have some sore ears from last night.

[gilliam]

CBS to Air U.S. Soldier's Video Diary of Iraq Abuse
http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/402079|top|05-11-2004::20:25|reuters.html

[cripplecreek]

No reason they should get a respite today.

[Diogenesis]

AMERICANS BEHEADED BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMANS<
AFTER PRODDING AND ENCOURAGEMENT BY CBS AND the RATHER-CASTRO.

THIS LATEST BEHEADING WAS DIRECTLY DUE TO SCHEMING DAN RATHER AND PROTERRORIST CBS.

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AMERICANS HANGING ON A BRIDGE IN FALLUJA BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMANS

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TORTURE OF AMERICANS BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMANS

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The murders were encouraged by the American media's and their sponsors' fixation and ETERNAL LOVE for terrorists.

[sarasota]

You need a "graphic warning" on this post.

[cripplecreek]

I agree, I know what kind of animal we're fighting and don't need a reminder.

[elbucko]

"Reporters and newspapermen are all spies and should be shot before sundown".......................Gen. W.T. Sherman

Dan Rather should be "forced to resign".

[aShepard]

These were my exact thoughts as soon as this humility surfaced.

I fully believe in the freedom of the press, but CBS should certainly given a heads-up to the President and his administration that they were about to expose this garbage.

Even Johnny Cockroach gets a heads-up by the LA prosecutors on everything they had on OJ.

This treatment of this administration should not stand.

[Sue Bob]

I totally agree. Since last night, I have been considering the idea that we need to go to war with CBS and Dan Rather. We cannot allow them to "Walter Cronkite" us in this conflict. Iraq is a piece of the bigger war for our survival against Islamism. It is far more crucial to win it than was Vietnam.

I just started posting on this Board after reading "Hilary's Secret War". I realized the power that the Underground Media and this and similar boards have to impact society.

I feel quite certain that this board can have impact in a war against CBS and Dan Rather. If they are not with us--they are against us--and must be stopped.

[rudypoot]

If you believe:
US is to blame for 9/11.
Rumsfeld is to blame for prisoner abuse.

Then:
CBS is to blame for the killing of Nick Berg.

It's not the fault of the people that actually did it, right?

[Diogenesis]

Dan Rather should be "forced to resign".

BINGO.

[Piedmont Rebel]

No doubt, CBS's constant harping about Abu Ghraib shows how anti-american the press really is. But to be fair, those subhuman pukes would've done this anyway. Remember Danny Pearl?

I REALLY, REALLY hope we get Zarquawi alive.

[Republican Red]

Call MSNBC: Jeremy Gaines VP, Media Relations

MSNBC: Nick Berg "Paid With His Life" For Prisoner Abuse

201-583-5362

Call CBS Newsroom (more fun from last night):

Airing more Iraqi abuse stories tonight and refuses to play Berg video

212-975-3691

[Grammy]

Could you either remove the graphic pictures or modify the headline to warn of them? I had chosen not to look at them because I know how they will haunt me. Just the description was enough to cause me serious distress.

Now I will have to live with that picture in my head, when I should be seeing my darling granddaughter laughing instead.

[Paloma_55]

Its a new kind of war

In the old days, wars were fought with tanks, planes, soldiers fighting eye-to-eye to take land and win the war.

Media was used as a mechanism to undermine the determination of the enemy... that has not changed.
What has changed is clear when one looks at the outcome of the Vietnam War. A country with un-stoppable capacity to fight a traditional war, quit in the face of overwhelming opposition.. from within.
How did the enemy undermine their determination?
The fight did not take place in Hanoi. It did not take place in Saigon. It took place in Ohio. It took place in San Francisco. It took place all over America as the pictures of coffins were run on the evening news.
While every American coffin had 10 Vietnamese graves to match it.. while every American TV had Americans crying about our losses as the Vietnamese were cheering in spite of their burning villages and bombed out cities... we lost.

While Al Qaida is heartless, they do have a brain. They know what weapons will win this war. It is the TV. The daily Newspaper. The Internet.

When we finally surrender... when we succumb to our fears and kneel down before Al Qaida, they will do to us what they have done to Nick Berg... they will cut our heads off.

[Steven W.]

showing those pictures was a VIOLATION OF THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS

Of course if they hadn't shown the photos there would have been nothing to the story because the only thing the Gov. had not yet disclosed, fully, were the photos, themselves, as having been held in obeyance pending the previously scheduled trials & court martials.

[cripplecreek]

It's Rathers last hurrah. The vietnam war made him and he doesn't want to retire without bringing down one more republican.

[narby]

You're way to nice for me.

[Republicus2001]

Will Rather and CBS apologize at a large press conference today?