RE-REPLAYING 'adored, smiling, Saddam' video: News?Terrorizing the Iraqi people? [vanity]

Why did Fox and Friends repeatedly air the 'adored Saddam' Iraqi Info Min. video to illustrate their 'question of the day' today (re. a supposed "new Saddam letter")?

For the record, we wiped out the vast majority of Saddam's loyal army of co-oppressors. We have OUR troops living in SADDAM's palaces. Saddam's regime and rule are OVER...thanks to OUR troops. Saddam is never, never, never going to rule in Iraq AGAIN. Yet, the few remaining bad guys, regime dead-enders, continue to terrorize the Iraqi people - with the help of the international newsmedia!

Knowing what this monster did to the Iraqi people, why does the press continue to run the videos of 'smiling Saddam' and the latest 'Saddam's alive' story as 'entertainment' - as if there's a chance in Hell that Saddam would ever be given the chance to rule Iraq again, as if this monster is still able to wipe out whole villages and families in retalliation for speaking out against him - as he did in the 1980's, 1990's, 2000's?

When Fox and Friends re-aired the video again and again this morning - smiling Saddam surrounded by 'adoring crowds' to illustrate yet another new 'Saddam letter' - did they think of the Kuwaiti people and newly freed Iraqis? They get FoxNews in Kuwait now. Some Iraqi people now have satellite dishes, and they get Brit Hume's Special Report in Baghdad, I think. Saddam's rape victims, relatives of those he tortured and murdered must wonder how we could be so unthinking, so cruel.

Saddam will never rule in Iraq again. NEVER. His victims need to know this. Our President, the Coalition, our troops would never allow it. The newly freed Iraqi people need to know this.

The next time "Saddam" appears, instead of airing Iraqi Info Min, lies - aiding our enemies, terrorizing the Iraqi people and undermining our efforts to stabilize Iraq - the press could illustrate the "new" sighting w/ a picture of one of Saddam's mutilated victims, then feature an interview with one of OUR Marines, or interview one of the survivors in a nation of real victims still waiting in fear to speak and be heard. Tell the world what Saddam's regime did to the Iraqi and Kuwaiti people - all of it - until we NEVER forget. THAT'S factual. That's "news".

Every time there's a supposed Saddam 'sighting', 'letter' or 'video' - intended always to further terrify and control the Iraqi people - AMERICAN news people raised in freedom should be telling the true horror stories from Iraq of Saddam's Baathist Socialist Party's brutal oppression of the Iraqi people - the raping of children and wives, burning babies alive - the imprisonment, torture and death of family members to extract cooperation and information, the mutilation performed by every doctor - forced by the regime to bloody their own hands for the state....the daily, weekly, yearly terror of the Iraqi people living under Saddam Hussein. Tell these true stories until the rest of the world no longer considers it "amusing" or "entertaining" to play smiling Saddam videos and pretend the latest letter means anything more than yet one more effort to silence and terrify the Iraqi people and prevent them and US from stabilizing Iraq.

But, but FNC reported this morning that Saddam had sent a letter telling us we had better leave so I guess we need to just pack up and come home. Forget what you said about our soldiers living in his palaces, his army is gone, most of his supporters have been routed. If he says go we had better git. Nevermind about the war, just git.

Yeah, and FNC's the good guy. We need some military embed reporters on the ground in Iraq. Our press is sick with partisanship. When did "objective" come to mean that N. Korea's government is as legitimate as America's or that Iraqi Info Ministry propaganda is more trustworthy than CENTCOM?

(Photo:imisite.org)

The result of

real WMDs Saddam

used on his own people.

We need to reverse the pic - make Iraq almost whole and Saddam in pieces....facts are important. (^:

Sent off the thread w/ subject line: NEWS ALERT! Saddam is NEVER coming back! Please alert the lost/"objective" press and their misinformed customers, esp. the newly freed, frightened Iraqi people. Thank you.

Not good at pithy. Sigh.

The only fair and balanced news network in the world is still showing happy Saddam on Fox & Friends, and still implying that our troops, our country and our allies can't kick the butt of any terrorist wannabe and regime dead-ender.

6 posted on 06/17/2003 5:16:31 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl (I can not think of a worse scenario for our military than to have Mrs. Clinton as our CIC-Col.Buzz P)

"In terms of Saddam Hussein, I think it really doesn't matter. The bottom line is he's no longer in power. I think everybody realizes that, and he's never going to come back to power. I think there's two things related to that. We have to make sure that people understand that coalition forces are going to be here until we have a safe and secure environment, and that the bottom line is Saddam Hussein or his sons will never take control of this country again." ~ Maj. Gen. Odierno Videoteleconference from Baghdad, June 18, 2003 [4th ID!]

7 posted on 06/20/2003 6:32:22 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ( "The overwhelming majority of the Iraqi people are happy to see us there." Jay Garner, June 18.)

FoxNews...the video is still not entertainment, though you've shown it twice this afternoon. Why not ask Saddam's rape victims if it's funny? Why not ask our troops - our President? Saddam is NOT coming back and the NY Times as a source is rubbing salt in the wounds. Why not do a rare post-embed thing and refer to the EXPERTS at CENTCOM?

Don't you dare claim that you and the press aren't inciting fear with this crap.

8 posted on 06/20/2003 1:10:01 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ( "The overwhelming majority of the Iraqi people are happy to see us there." Jay Garner, June 18.)

Every time the FoxNews "smiling Saddam" tool of torture video is shown, it's a reminder that FN, like the rest, is an "entertainment show" for profit - because surely no one who knew what this monster did to the Iraqi people, who knows that our troops are working to reassure the Iraqi people that Saddam is NEVER coming back (HE ISN'T), who knows that Saddam used this type of video to terrorize and control the Iraqi people would EVER choose to re-play a "smiling Saddam surrounded by adoring Iraqis" video to Saddam's victims now watching FoxNews in Kuwait and Iraq w/ open wounds on top of many old scars.

Saddam "news"? Show the reality of the mass-graves.

9 posted on 06/23/2003 10:02:46 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl (***Hillary sells out USA to EU socialists!***http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/930511/posts)

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