[The Old Hoosier]

Not one guy--one guy and all of his extended family. Do you think all of these people WANTED to be forced to leave their home, just so that we could know about somebody being tortured? Do you think CNN could have gotten the whole family out without the government noticing something and perhaps detaining and torturing or killing more of them?

This is not nearly as simple as you think.

CNN probably should have left Baghdad in principle, but they could not have reported this story anyway, for fear of retribution against the camera man and his family.

[Howlin]

Read what you are saying.

You are saying that ANY country in the entire world can obliterate ANY and ALL reporting their country by THREATENING a weasely reporter.

Never mind all the people who died during those 12 years because CNN towed the Iraqi line that they were not really bad people, that all the reports of torture were just lies by people mad at Hussein or bent on getting his oil.

Why is one lie different from another?

[Howlin]

but they could not have reported this story anyway

Did you read the original article: this wasn't the ONLY excuse they had, although they would love for you to think that it is.

And yes, they could have left Baghdad, and even if they didn't report THIS one story, they could have NOT slanted all their reporting FOR Iraq and AGAINST this country.

But they didn't.

[MonroeDNA]

No matter what your bio says, you are outed.

Your tagline gives it away.

"Support our troops: Bring them home." is the official new mantra of the leftist protestors. They couldn't stop the war, so now they are trying to end it prematurely.

Welcome, Sleeper-Freeper.

And from your bio, apparantly you've been accused of this before.

[Diddle E. Squat]

But even if one can excuse them for not reporting on the atrocities, what damns CNN is that their reporting/programming/underlying editorial bias was slanted AGAINST Bush's push for regime change. It is one thing to stay silent yet let others attempt to liberate those you know who are oppressed, and quite another to try and prevent the ending of repression.

For example, I can understand how someone living in a neighborhood terrorized by gang activity staying quiet out of fear, but there is no excuse for doing so AND actively hindering police and investigators who try to remove the gangs.

[Go Gordon]

CNN probably should have left Baghdad in principle, but they could not have reported this story anyway, for fear of retribution against the camera man and his family.

What a load of self-serving crapola. CNN's silence to protect one man and his family (if true) - was it worth the ten's of thousands that were brutally raped, tortured and murdered for over a decade?

What about reporters like Daniel Pearl? He lost his life trying to get the truth and report it. And you're willing to give CNN a pass? I'm speechless. There is no defending what they did.