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[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Chief news executive at CNN writes this, and yet they still show disdain for our actions in Iraq in their reporting? Even after this??

Just today I watched CNN long enough to get an idea of how the "tilt" was going to be regarding this war. I honestly couldn't watch it for more than 20 mins.

The reporters are smug and seem almost gleeful when something bad happens to American forces. I can't explain it.. you have to see it.

But even more disturbing yet.. is reading a report like this.. knowing they knew what they did.. and yet they act like this President was wrong to go in. For humanitarian reasons alone, it would have been reason enough for war.

God Forgive these people for knowing what they knew.. and never getting it out. They could have leaked it to another network, at a later date.. something!! This is just insane. Anything for a dollar..

I can see a CIA agent going underground and witnessing these kinds of atrocities.. but I can't understand this. Especially since they DID NOT REPORT IT at the time!!

Perhaps I'm just "reacting" to what I just read, and I'm wrong. But man.. this makes me ill.

[baseballmom]

Still, I felt I had a moral obligation to warn Jordan's monarch, and I did so the next day. King Hussein dismissed the threat as a madman's rant. A few months later Uday lured the brothers-in-law back to Baghdad; they were soon killed.

Why didn't he tell the brothers-in-law too ?? Am I missing something here? He had MONTHS to tell them that they were going to be assasinated by Uday - he can tell the King of Jordan, but not the others? WHY?

I think I read that one of these brothers-in-law was the ONLY reason we knew that Saddam had started up his WMD program again. He defected and told the story - the UN inspectors ended up with egg of their faces - again.

This is horrible what CNN did - just for the "story". What story was so important? More important that someone's life?

[ladyinred]

These stories are horrific, and should be told. However, I have a problem with the fact that they weren't told before. Am I alone in this, or does anyone else feel this should never have been kept quiet? I can't understand how any human being could go around with these secrets for so long while people were being tortured and killed by this evil regime.

[Rocky]

Yeah, sure. Everybody who watched CNN during the past three weeks could tell how pro-liberation they were, right? To the author of this article: Tell it to Susan Sarandon and the Baldwins. Go shout it to the peace protesters.

CNN is really pro-America. They just have to hide it to protect their staff. They hide it really well.

[ladyinred]

I just started reading replies to the thread after posting. My question has been answered, others do feel like I do. This should not have been kept secret!!!!!

[spodefly]

For weeks he was beaten and subjected to electroshock torture in the basement of a secret police headquarters ...

Others disappeared and then surfaced later with whispered tales of being hauled off and tortured in unimaginable ways.

An aide to Uday once told me why he had no front teeth: henchmen had ripped them out with pliers ...

They beat her daily for two months, forcing her father to watch. In January 1991, on the eve of the American-led offensive, they smashed her skull and tore her body apart limb by limb. A plastic bag containing her body parts was left on the doorstep of her family's home.

None of this bothered CNN enough to lose a Bagdad bureau.

None of the above bothers these people. They are more worried about Bush:

[Humidston]

...And they laugh at us for being so idealistic. ...Call us "simpletons" and naive.

HA! At least we can sleep at night.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ping.

[Illbay]

"Now that I have that off my chest, let's go to our intrepid on-the-scene reporter, with a half-hour tribute to those valiant men and women who are protesting the unjust war that they allege is merely about 'blood for oil'.

"And in the interest of 'fairness' we won't challenge a single one of them with the notion that they might be aiding and abetting a brutal dictatorship!"

[goodnesswins]

bump for later

[ambrose]

bump

[weegee]

Interesting that a news agency would withhold a news story so as not to endanger the lives of their own staff (from an oppressive regime no less) but would willingly report details on American troop position/size so as to remain "objective" and not be censored by "the man".

And the left wonders why we call them the "hate America first" crowd and why we say that the media leans left in its bias...

[Lancey Howard]

Wow.
Incredible post.
This one needs to be bumped for at least a week.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP

[Cold Heat]

i have not read the thread, only the article, because I wanted my reply to be the first thing that came burning into my mind.

What CNN and others did in Iraq was to deny their reason for existence in order to have a seat at Saddam's table.

They sucked up!

They abused the purpose of freedom of the press!

They became part of the regime!

They are traitors to the profession and to the United states of America and the entire world!

They disgust me in ways that I cannot even find words to express!

[Lancey Howard]

I suspect we will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment.

Yes we will.
Just wait until the Iraqi people open up fully.
Then all we will need is the scumbag liberal anti-Bush network newsrooms to report it.

I sure wouldn't count on Perky Katie to report on the Saddam atrocities.

[MediaMole]

My reply to CNN:

I have just finished reading the article by Eason Jordan in the New York Times.

Never before have I felt more revulsion for the moral character of any news organization. To continue to work in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, when you knew the truth about the regime's torture and murder is absolutely unconsionable.

CNN and Mr. Jordan are complicit in the murder of the two defectors, who could have been saved if anyone at the network had acted on the information they had.

CNN had information that would have changed the public's perception of the regime in Iraq, but failed to act. Would CNN have reported the existence of Auschwitz if reporting on it threatened the ability of the network to stay in Nazi Germany?

Mr. Jordan's actions may have saved the lives of those he knew, but how many thousands of innocent Iraqis died as he and CNN aided the regime and prolonged the terror?

As a photojournalist I have always felt that my duty as a human being comes before my duty to report a story. That attitude may have kept me in a small town weekly, but my conscience in clear. CNN has made the decision to place continued access and favor over duty to help one's fellow man.

[Utah Girl]

This is an incredible story, very infuriating.

[Howlin]

Check this out.