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To: Willie Green
....understand how airing the video of the beheading is "over-the-top" for American television.

So was airing the prison videos.

The U.S. Army announced last January that there had been "cruelty and sexual abuse of detainees". The U.S. Army conducted a very thorough investigation and prosecutions were being prepared. The entire world did not need to see the inflammatory photos. That added absolutely nothing to the story.

The inflammatory nature of those photos created the media circus that the Islamists claimed was their justification for beheading Nick Berg.

I don't want CBS to actually air that video.

I do want CBS to be hoisted on it's own petard.

99 posted on 05/11/2004 3:33:57 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius
So was airing the prison videos.

As I explained in my reply #100,
I don't think the deplorable acts captured on the prison videos rise to the same horrific level as the decapitation. Furthermore, I think your tendency to equate the two is misguided and plays into the hand of the anti-war Islamo-sympathizers.

139 posted on 05/11/2004 3:45:09 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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