The first thing I read this morning (at 5:15am) was this article in the NY Times by Eason Jordan.
I wanted to smash his face.
Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.
...but you continued to pursue the same scum, giving them airtime...
For example, in the mid-1990's one of our Iraqi cameramen was abducted. For weeks he was beaten and subjected to electroshock torture in the basement of a secret police headquarters ...
...and all the while CNN was proclaiming to the world that America should'nt do anything about Iraq...
The secret police terrorized Iraqis working for international press services who were courageous enough to try to provide accurate reporting. Some vanished, never to be heard from again. Others disappeared and then surfaced later with whispered tales of being hauled off and tortured in unimaginable ways.
...these assholes knew this kind of activity was occurring, torture, rape and murder, but made the journalistic decision to not report it so they could continue to cover the story...
I came to know several Iraqi officials well enough that they confided in me that Saddam Hussein was a maniac who had to be removed.
...and you chose to share this with the public after the USAF blew the bastards body to hell and back, holding this information back as the company you work for was relaying the same maniac's words to the world as if they were gospel...
While driving to work, I thought about what I had read, and it struck me... this asshat didn't realize that he had stifled the real story in order to continue to "report" on Saddam's terms... he deliberately suppressed the truth and presented what he knew to be lies as truth.
Sir, you are a coward, a sniveling propagandist for one of the worst butchers in modern history. I doubt you feel any shame but you should... you and your bosses knew the truth of the Iraqi situation and opposed the liberation of the Iraqi people.
Fuck you and Ted Turner too. May you both burn in hell
Posted by Mike S at April 11, 2003 07:21 PMBetween this bastard and Scott Ritter I was ready to rip someone's throat open today.
Posted by: michele on April 11, 2003 07:57 PM"I wanna KILL! I wanna KILL! I wanna see blood, guts and veins hanging in my teeth. I wanna eat dead, burnt bodies." ..Arlo Guthrey, Alice's Restaurant.
I'm still a tad pissed at them.
Posted by: Mike S on April 12, 2003 02:53 PM