It is too late too come clean. They are as guilty as the regime if they knew this was happening and still prostrated themselves just to get a story.

Bull! I believe these stories were withheld because CNN feared Iraq would have them removed from the country. Whatever the case, I hope that CNN has a severe case of the guilts right now because they were effectively allowing this regime to continue unreported.

That should give us all pause, when we feel forgiving towards the media whores.

Yet another reason to rejoice in the toppling of Saddam.

This Dreckspass (german word), this idiot enabler of Clinton and and his ilk, this week-kneed scum does not deserve the Freedom that our Founding Fathers pledged their sacred honor for. Sacred honor - this gerbil of the demoronic debauched wouldn't know sacred honor if he were standing under Sadam's statue when it fell on him. They are willing to claim that Westmoreland gassed innocents when he didn't, but they refrain from informing on Sadam when he did.

When I watched CNN I would curse and scream and throw things at the screen. Now I will just turn it off, and sit in stunned silence with the knowledge of that the blood of millions is on their hands - and on the hands of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda. And may God have mercy on their souls.

Can you elighten us cube-bound? (Don't have aTV at home either.)

I posted this on the Command Post blog:

This pretty much gives the lie to the "brave journalists in Baghdad to bring the world the truth" claim. In fact, CNN now admits that A) they have routinely suppressed the hideous truth about the Baghdad regime precisely because there were CNN people in Iraq, and B) their presence routinely got Iraqis tortured and killed.

One wonders why they were willing to risk Iraqi lives and prostitute themselves to Saddam's regime just to be able to say, "We have people in Baghdad."

I wish I could believe they would engage in some soul-searching about this, but their arrogance and self-righteousness is such that I cannot imagine it happening.

American journalism is a cesspool.

But if they did tell some of the stories the fear was that more lives would be lost. If Saddam could control our media in this way - with fear - imagine what he did to his own people. I don't know what to think about this although I'm glad that the author finally is telling his story...lets see if the network as a whole will do this now.

There will be many long magazine articles and even books written by the embeds. I am very much looking forward to it.

A few months later Uday lured the brothers-in-law back to Baghdad; they were soon killed.

This jerk is complicit in a murder. I think these brothers-in-law were the ones who were talking about what Iraq was doing, and Uday, with CNN's prior knowledge, murdered them.

The First Amendment might give lots of protection for free speech. But it's not a license for murder.

I was discusted with CNN before. Now I'm beyond.

What soul? Really, what?

How do you spell mea culpa?

I wonder if the news organizations that sent these reporters to be embedded with the troops own the "rights" to these stories? Maybe the embeds had to sign an agreement saying that they weren't to publish any story without the editor's consent. Sort of like when you create a new product that becomes patented, but the company that employed you gets to keep the patent.

Why didn't he tell our govt about this?

The CNN people though knew about this for years and just went happily along with the situation.....GRRRRRRRRRR.....

gunnut, you said it. I feel like the Arab guy who said "no one believes Al Jazeera now". These media people should have been beating the drum for this war a long time ago.

what's with them. really, is a proper reception at a cocktail party on the Upper West Side worth all this?

"A man's reach must exceed his grasp/ Or what's a heaven for?" Robert Browning.

Great Post, original poster, if I hadn't checked the link myself I wouldn't have believed it to be true. Expecting to hear this dicussed tomorrow, which is today.

I love the 24 hour b*llsh*t dubbunking cycle!

So, now we learn that your journalistic presence in Iraq had nothing to do with reporting the truth. Indeed, the very fact that you had people in Iraq *prevented* you from reporting the truth. You prostituted your journalistic integrity to Saddam Hussein. Your presence in Iraq cost the lives of God knows how many innocent Iraqis. All so you could say, "We have people in Iraq."

Were your bragging rights worth it?

That's exactly what I am feeling. It's like a whole lot of things need to fall into place before I can formulate what I think.

But I KNOW I am very, very upset about this.

I am so looking forward to this--I hope they all make it back OK to do this. Maybe (I hope I hope) it will be a renaissance of sorts, and shows the public how honorable our military guys are--and bring them back to the same public regard they had in WWII.

Limbaugh and Hannity and other radio talkers will discuss it, but how many major news organizations didn't have people inside Iraq? Even Fox did. What if they're all compromised this way? Who will be the first to admit that they're amoral scum who are interested in neither truth nor honor, but only in revenue and celebrity?

I heard that when one of the units with an embed came under heavy fire in N. Iraq, that the Marines started firing TOW missles in return, whooping and hollering like a bunch of fans at a NASCAR race! You gotta love these guys! May God bless each and every one of you!

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Never ever ever will that happen.

They ALL had minders. AP, Fox, Reuters MSNBC....the whole lot of them. I'm sure CNN wasn't the only network hearing/knowing these stories

They sure are!

Ab-so-damn-lotely!

And why PAY these people in CASH on a DAILY BASISS so you can report their rubbish?

Yeah. That's why I think Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson aren't going to be running with this story.

If you are combining all of those then your not even close. But I understand what you are trying to say.

Basically, all they could really do in Baghdad is report on what Saddam was saying. They gave up every bit of integrity they had (if they had any to begin with) in order to get their bureau there.

CNN is guilty of the worst crime imaginable by a news bureau.

Please folks, do not let this story just fade to the back pages. Anybody who knows any local or national talk show host, fax them this story. CNN has a very great deal to explain. I want to know every single damned story that they had of the depravity in Baghdad that they buried.

This list I guarantee you is less than 1% of what they knew. This mea culpa is a day late, a dollar short, and not acceptable.

The word "Outrage" is tossed around too frequently in our political climate. In this case, it absolutely fits the bill.

There need to be resignations, public apologies. 2 hour specials run constantly, updating people on CNN's behaviour, and what they plan to do to correct it. A weasle like apology in the NY Times after over a decade of letting people suffer in silence just does not cut it.

Liberalism has now flushed itself down the maelstrom of its nihilistic nothingness. There is no hard place on the soft mush of these folks' falsehoods and lies. It is just a squalid ooze that leaves the stench of death in your nostrils. If they were true to themselves and merely stood against the conservative position one could admire them - say like one admires Pat Moynihan. But they lie even to themselves, and the base of their own neat little fantasy land crumbles into dust - the dust of the tortured souls whose blood is on their heads.

They are one and the same with Baghdad Bob.

Only worse, because THEY paid THEM to let them report their garbage!

Bump.

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:

Staggering, sickening, revulsion? I don't get it. This, NOW, on the tails of their usual anti-Bush, how-many-civilians-are-we-killing, anti war spin? Are we supposed to sympathize with them? Just what are they looking for with this piece? It's almost like a pathetically late and insincere effort to align themselves with the 80 some percent of Americans who know Bush did the right thing. The saddest part is, they knew all along, too, that it was the absolute right thing to do. I am at a loss for words in describing what i think of cnn.

It is over a decade in the making, but this news must get out to the widest audience possible.