This is simple.
CNN should have pulled out of Iraq and told the world what it knew. By all means, make every effort to pull families out, etc. to get as many innocent as you can.
Brit Hume just reminded us of the fairly recent "election" of Saddam Hussein which was such a sham. However, the reporter informed the CNN viewers of the "reverence" Iraqis supposedly had for their leader.
And clearly CNN was portraying GWB as the madman for wanting to go to war. They wanted "containment", they still are mis-representing facts, and they still retain the abominable Christiane Amanpour, who probably knows ever MORE horror stories, and still she clearly views the U.S. as the bad guy.
Please go away though, your tone of argument is not anything I wish to engage with.
They shouldn't have waited to get kicked out. Once they saw that Saddam's animals were going to make being a propaganda organ for the regime the price of keeping their Baghdad bureau open, they should have said "Thanks, but no thanks", and then bugged out.
The result.. all of this would go undocumented. Now i'm sure there are plenty of news organizations that will be able to place facts so that any living members of the regime responsible for these crimes will be put to justice.
Bulls**t. What do you suppose is happening now that the regime has crumbled away? The truth is coming out. And it's coming out in spite of the left wing media organs such as the New York Times, LA Times, Newsweek and CNN. And what use is ANYTHING that CNN's Baghdad staff might "document" when the bureau has surrendered any pretext of credibility it may have had by prostituting itself to Saddam Hussein?
How about the Iraqi's working for them as he mentioned?
This is the most compelling reason there is for CNN to have packed up shop in Baghdad once it became clear what the terms were going to be to stay! It would be very hard for the regime to kill them if CNN were no longer there and they weren't working (or at least it would be hard for the regime to kill them under this particular pretext - Saddam's monsters didn't seem to even need a reason to kill).
So instead, CNN prostrated themselves before Saddam and cheerfully pushed his propaganda on the rest of the world just so they could keep their "presence." Seems to me that CNN's Iraqi staffers were tortured and murdered pushing Saddam's propaganda. That has to be one of the vilest forms of irony I can imagine. AND CNN LET THIS HAPPEN FOR TWELVE YEARS!!!
And then on top of all that, knowing all of this, CNN has the unmitigated gall to send us all kinds of warm and fuzzy stories about Saddam's birthday celebration, about how Saddam got almost 100 percent of the "vote" in the last "election" and how this is proof that the Iraqis adored him.
Every time 50 smelly unwashed hippie maggots turned out to shit in the streets, throw trash at cops and wave their stupid "No blood for oil" signs, CNN breathlessly reported that tens of thousands of "mainstream Americans" were peacefully protesting this "illegal", "immoral" war (and CNN made no bones about their total agreement with the protestors on the war issue). CNN even went out of their way to clean up the coverage, showing only sweet grandmotherly types and cute little kids waving "No War" signs! And why not - they were giving us a whitewashed view of the goings-on in Baghdad from their precious bureau there, so why not spread some more lies?
Every time that POS perfumed prince Wesley Clark opened his piehole to deliver his latest steaming load with a grunt and a splash, CNN was right there, gleefully urging him on and repeating the Left's mantra-de-jour that the idiot selected President had led us into another Vietnam quagmire, that our soldiers were starving in the desert, that Rumsfeld was a blithering fool endangering our soldier's lives by trying to win the war on the cheap, and that Iraqi civilians were dropping like flies.
Get the point yet?