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Posted on 04/08/2003 11:52:01 AM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
Would Journalists have “embedded” Themselves in Hitler’s Bunker in 1945?
It is very obvious that the regime of Iraq will use journalists as human shields, and use the occupancy or housing of journalists in the same way they use mosques, schools and hospitals, in the same manner the regime uses their own citizens. Would this be a surprise to these journalists? They did not, do not, expect that?
Obviously, they must not be covering the war at all if this is a surprise to them.
And so, what are they doing there, in a building with the Iraqi Information Minister? Why do they stay there at all? Doesn’t it occur to them, that instead of locating themselves in the buildings under the control of, and in use by, Iraqi government officials, they should relocate their journalistic operations to buildings under the protection of the coalition forces?
I mean, it became pretty obvious after the battles approaching the airport and subsequent terrorist actions by foreign Islamic groups using villagers and metropolitan non-combatants as human shields, that perhaps the journalists should consider relocating – perhaps putting basic operations at the airport for example. Or, they can remain as embedded with coalition forces on the ground - that is one method.
But war is tough, dangerous, so if they want a nice hotel bed and breakfast and call themselves “war journalists”, then perhaps they should find themselves a new job, perhaps covering soccer events or school bake sales instead. Actually, the soccer events may be too violent for them. If they want to remain in a hotel with the benefits of bed and breakfast, a hotel which is an operations center for the Iraqi regime, then perhaps they should fully expect to be used as shields, to perhaps be killed.
Very soon, the same Iraqi regime will not only use these journalists as human shields, and their housing as operations for terrorist snipers and for stock piling dangerous weapons, it will not be very long before the regime’s policy of controlling their own folk through fear will also be used upon these journalists. They will use fear to manipulate these journalists, to control them, because as the regime loses control of their own people, the “Information Ministry” will actually in a sense see these journalists as “their people” which require “their protection” – the journalists being the regime’s last hold-outs in providing at least some limited support regarding the propaganda campaign of the Iraqi government. In the like manner, if these same journalists, “their people”, do not do an effective enough job in the propaganda campaign, they will be arrested. In the like manner as they do to their own citizens, kidnapping them, murdering them, because they “love them so much” they don’t want to see them stray from the “cause”, they will very soon start doing the same to their new “constituency”, these journalists.
They love these journalists so much, that they will very soon start kidnapping them, taking them as hostages, murdering them, so that they will not stray from the cause. I guess, these journalists think perhaps the Iraqis won’t do this to them?
Well, I suppose some of these same journalists would have loved to have been “embedded” in the bunker of Chancellor Hitler in 1945, covering the last days and hours of the National Socialist German Workers Party, thinking their journalist credentials would have saved them from a Russian bomb. And, I guess these journalist would have died – probably they would have been handed a cyanide tablet by the Chancellor’s Propaganda Minister. And, it would have been quite an insult to the German government, if the journalists embedded in the bunker of Chancellor Hitler didn’t eagerly swallow the tablet.
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So how many snipers did they kill?
Actually, one did. His name was Joseph Goebbels.
And the people in the bunker (except for the Goebbelses' children) weren't compelled to die. Many people got out alive. Haven't you seen people like Hitler's secretaries and valet interviewed on shows like "The World at War"?
Gosh, I don't know when he stopped. In Scherer's Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich, there's a lot of very specific detail about the last days in the bunker. Some of them came from some attaches. Clearly Goebbel's diary had to stop somewhere. I don't know if Goebbels left a last entry reading "finished poisoning the kids, have loaded the gun, saying ahhh..".
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