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These points are well made, although CNN probably didn't have the option of getting their Iraqi employees out of Baghdad. It was still pathetic that they let these few block telling the story for the sake of the many - I have no doubt there was some way to have handled this besides keeping silent.

But don't journalists believe that THEY are the ones that know best? After all, everyone else has a bias - only the journalist acts strictly without self interest, right?

The argument about the Palestinians is an excellent one. A free nation like Israel is stuck with a free press, but if the anger the Palestinians, they may wind up with no access.

Last, this man's confession makes me wonder how much Dan Rather knows! What kind of idiot journalist would land an interview with Saddam Hussein and fail to ask ONE SINGLE QUESTION that anyone would be interested in hearing him answer? He interviews the modern equivalent of Hitler and lets him posture like he's today's equivalent of Mohatma Gandhi (comments about how he was born following Allah, and how world leaders should act without aggression!!!) without being called on it? Why do the interview at all?

Com out, Dan Rather, come out from behind that curtain!