super duty

Possibly the only people unmoved by the sight of jubilant Iraqis dancing in
the streets and tearing down statues of Saddam Hussein last Wednesday were


brutality and atrocities committed by Saddam's government.

Jordan tells of having Baghdad station employees abducted, beaten, tortured,
and killed. He speaks of aides of Uday Hussein having their teeth ripped out
with pliers for the inexcusable act of upsetting his boss. But never once
did Eason Jordan or anyone else at CNN ever report on these atrocities.
These people should be ashamed of themselves. They have allowed the
brutality of the Iraqi regime to continue on, all the while promoting their
own anchors at home who all oppose the war effort. If this isn't an example
of a media bias, I don't know what is. And not only is it an example of
media bias, but it is a bias that allowed countless Iraqi civilians to be
killed.

Jordan states that "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." And who did you inform of these brutal
acts? Nobody! Jordan rationalizes his appeasement of Saddam's brutality by
saying that it "could not be reported because doing so would have
jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff."

As noble as it is to wish to save these few lives, what about the many other
Iraqis who don't work for CNN? Especially since you just finished explaining
that "working for a foreign news organization provided Iraqi citizens no
protection." Folks, Eason Jordan and his cronies at CNN weren't concerned
with saving a few Iraqi employees lives; they were worried about being
allowed to stay in Baghdad.

They didn't want to get kicked out. Jordan opens his sick diatribe with
"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." He was so "distressed" by what he was witnessing, but to report
on any of these atrocities would simply have been unthinkable. Yeah. I
suspect that whenever we find Saddam Hussein's body, we'll find little bits
of Eason Jordan's lips attached to his backside.

CNN is not the only media organization responsible for this either. Any
organization who had a station or reporters in Iraq knew what was going on,
and who reported it? All of these people, who have opposed this war, all the
while knowing what was going on over there, share in the responsibility.

Jordan relates a conversation in 1995 that he had with Saddam's son, Uday
Hussein. Uday told him of his intent to assassinate two of his
brothers-in-law and King Hussein of Jordan. But was this reported? Of course
not! It might have jeopardized CNN's presence in Baghdad. If you're not
going to bother to report the news accurately, why is it so important to
even be there in the first place?

Folks, this is a sick story, and should completely disgrace everyone who is
involved with this cover-up or with CNN period. Jordan stated, "I felt awful
having these stories bottled up inside of me. Now that Saddam Hussein's
regime is gone, I suspect we will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales
from Iraqis about the decades of torment." Yes I'm sure we will hear these
tales.if you bother to report them.