Where’s the Outrage, Con’t
Sigh:
After playing a pivotal role as the first to broadcast photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse which U.S. military officials feared would lead to death of Americans overseas, CBS News has declined to show the beheading of an American civilian in an apparent retaliation for the Iraqi images.
The decision–made first by the staff of the CBS Evening News, including managing editor Dan Rather–now an official news division policy, came on the same night that the network announced it was going to air footage of an American casually talking about killing Iraqi prisoners on tonight’s 60 Minutes II program.
CBS’s choice to not air the decapitation Nick Berg provoked much outrage from its viewers, who faulted the network for igniting a global firestorm over American misconduct while declining to show the murderous actions of America’s enemies.
Speaking of Berg’s killers..remember this story?
” long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself
Here’s some outrage!
‘Iraqis shocked by beheading, despair over violence.’ – Reuters
‘Most Baghdad residents on Wednesday condemned al Qaeda’s beheading of a U.S. civilian in Iraq (news – web sites), but many said his death was just the latest atrocity in a cycle of violence that is driving them to despair…
‘Even in the Baghdad Sunni Muslim stronghold of Adhamiya, where there is fierce opposition to the occupation, many residents were appalled by the decapitation of Berg.
‘”We denounce this act. No-one can accept the killing of another human being in this horrible way,” said Yassir Saleh, a 30-year-old barber.’
What do you expect from the Communist Broadcasting System?
Hermit, do you really think that we could just have sat back and arrested a few people and this would all have been over? We had to take the fight to the enemy, to go in and get rid of some of these militantly anti-american Islamofascists. And Saddam was a good place to start.
Saddam was a symbol of defiance to America, somebody who had faced off with the Great Satan and come out of it alive. He was doing all he could to destabilize the region (thousands of dollars to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, etc.) and increase anti-American sentiment. He had to go, and if the weak-minded on the left don’t stop us, he won’t be the last to go.
Here’s another outrage. Why doesn’t the justice department call these guys terrorists?
“They reportedly seized weapons, including 25,000 rounds of ammunition, commercial explosives, a gun with an illegal silencer, pipe bombs, shackles and other gear.
Also confiscated were “intel sheets” on law-enforcement officers, including home addresses and phone numbers for officers, physical descriptions and data on their spouses and children. Even bank account numbers reportedly were listed for some officers.”
where is the outrage that wingnuts had a hand in killing him???? Where is it???
On March 7, 2004 an “enemies list” composed of signatories to an anti-war petition was posted on the Free Republic website. The introductory and subsequent comments on that list suggest that the purpose of the posting was to encourage people to harrass the individuals on the list and to circulate their names to agencies and individuals that might take action against them.
Nick Berg’s father, Michael Berg was on that list and he named Prometheus Methods Tower Service, Inc. as an affiliation. According to his family on March 24, 2004 — approximately two weeks after publication of the enemies list on the Free Republic website — Nick Berg was detained by Iraqi police who handed him over to US forces, he was then held until April 6 when he was released, the day after his family had filed a lawsuit in Philadelphia federal court. Nick Berg was not heard from again after April 9.
Read more here, before it is surpressed:
http://maxspeak.org/mt/archives/000449.html
Ah, yes, it’s all so clear to me now. The animals who sawed a man’s head off were really just underprivileged arabs whose toys were taken away by the CIA at childhood so they could be later used to silence anti-war dissent.
Y’know, every time I read something like the above, I become more and more convinced that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Stephen — You can’t expect CBS to air the Nick Berg video. The man was beheaded, but he was fully clothed at the time.
CBS does not shy away from controversy, as long as nudity is an element.
Hermit:
I suppose you’re approximately 3000 times more outraged that Clinton didn’t pick up OBL when he was in Sudanese custody and offered up on a silver platter.
On the Montana nutjobs: The feds stopped them before they were able to carry out their plan, and you’re worried that they were labeled as paramilitaries and not as terrorists? Wow. Reuters must really hack you off then with their usage of the appellation “Palestinian insurgents.”
Poverty does not creat a terrorist HATRED creates a terrorist.
hermit, I am a reporter at a paper based in NYC. I have good sources in the FBI, whom I know and trust on a personal level.
Your insinuation that somehow they are not seen as terrorists or threats to US nat’l security is absurd and ill-informed. They are referred to as terroists in internal FBI meetings, alebeit domestic ones, and hunted and prosecuted vigourously.
Your beef is with the media.
BTW, FBI’ers I deal with tell me that there is indeed a differentiation between mid-east based terrorist threats and paramilitary groups…the ME guys seek the destruction of US society, including the slaughter of millions. In fact, there was an incident in 2001, now that I think of it.
The paramilitary sorts seek the restoration of some sort of 1849 society.
haven’t heard much from those sorts lately, eh? care to think that there is a reason for it…
The True Atrocities
The true atrocities are being commited by our enemies, not by us. But i pray that they will yet know the terrible retribution that awaits them. We must remain strong.Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say…
yea yea , all thats wonderful– where the fuck is bin laden? did every one forget who got us in this mess???
Bin Laden may be in a few thousand (small) pieces in a nice cool cave.
The Great Man has not been seen in public or even on a video tape in a long, long, while. While he may be shy and retiring, like Clark Kent, he’s not Superman (sorry, Superperson).
You’d think he’d be up and about, in his cheering leading rags by now.
Instead, he’s decomposed. Very decomposed….
Bin Laden is just a headline. He’s only important in the minds of the short sighted. His death or capture won’t even have much impact on recruiting.
Bin Laden is a minor part of this, true. But it is important that those who attack the US be held accountable. Killing him will make little difference to *us*… but it will make a difference to *them*.