CBS and Dan Rather should be held accountable (Warning: Graphic photos down thread)

[jg0510]

I posted the following message on the CBS message board yesterday and also sent the same message to Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. If you agree with my message, I would appreciate it if you would forward this e-mail to others in your address book. I believe this is very important and a "grass roots" effort may be the only way to force Dan Rather, CBS, and others to accept the responsibility of their careless and destructive actions:

"I think all American citizens should be outraged at CBS for making the "abuse" pictures public. CBS has done serious damage to the relationship between the US and the Middle East and has endangered our soldiers in Iraq. This is a matter that the Army should have handled internally and privately. 60 Minutes II and Dan Rather should be answering why they choose to jeopardize the security of our soldiers and our relationship with foreign countries for their "big story"."

Since I wrote this yesterday, a US citizen working in Iraq was beheaded in retaliation. If this story had not been made public by CBS, it is doubtful this atrocity would have happened. It is time for CBS be held accountable and should appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee to explain why they have compromised the safety of Americans and our foreign policy.

Thank you for passing this information to other concerned citizens.

[MarkL]

CBS is just trying to uphold their long, proud history of destroying the moral of the US soldier, and of trying to turn public opinion against the war, and more importantly, to paint our service men and women as a bunch of evil cads... Next up, I'm waiting for them to label them "baby-killers."

The only war that CBS (and all the other "alphabets") approves of is one that we're losing.

Mark

[cwb]

What pisses me off the most about the American media is that they intentionally hide and minimize Muslim violence because, in their own words, they don't want to tar an entire community and provoke anger against them. Yet, they have no such concern for the American people, as they not only post these pictures...they make it a headline story for weeks on end.

And contrary to their concern for tarring the entire Muslim community by exposing their atrocities, they practically intimate that such atrocities committed by our people are more widespread then believed. The disgusting fact is, that unlike the few soldiers who committed these acts, there is more widespread Muslim hatred and anger that the media refuses to acknowledge.

[lilylangtree]

I read yesterday on a FR posting that Berg died about a week before the prison photos were released. Did anyone else read that too?

[Diogenesis]

Let's make the world SAFE for your grandaughter's granddaughter.

[GrandEagle]

It is unlikely in my mind that the animals that beheaded my fellow countryman were prodded to do so by the prison abuse stuff. They just jumped on the bandwagon. They have never needed such a thing to behave like sub-humans before.
Our response should be overwealming and very very violent. That is the only thing they respect.

[Howlin]

God almighty.

[hapy]

Boycott CBS, send letters to Dan Rather and Co.

Do something about it

[keysguy]

Unfortunately, the way it works is unless you can convince sponsors to stop buying time that supports their tripe and BS they will survive. The only redeeming fact is that their numbers could well plummet hopefully, while Fox's continue to skyrocket.

[Michael.SF.]

Boycott CBS,

Been doing that for years, except when the game is on.

[garyb]

Supposedly the photographs have been in government hands since October/November. IMHO, the military was trying to cover this thing up. It certainly goes higher up that the grunts that have been charged so far. I smell CIA and/or DIA. Er, "contractors"

I had heard reports that CBS did tell the USG that they would be releasing the photographs. The USG asked them to be postponed, CBS refused.... The USG had known since October/November to figure out a response.

The Al-Quaida claim that the beheading was in retaliation for the abuse is bullstuff. They would have used a different excuse had this one not been available.

I have a lot of disagreements with CBS and their general slant to the news, however, the publication of the photographs appears to me to be a valid journalistic effort.

[OldFriend]

If there are any freepers who believe anything spoken on any mainstream media station or anything they read in the left wing news media, there is no hope.

Most of us, however, have grown up beyond even our 'own' media.

[OldFriend]

Have to agree with you, a warning or a link would have been preferable to the sudden appearance of the pictures.

Be ready to turn off your radio too......WABC radio has deemed it in their best interest to play the audio of the killing. It will be with me forever. Something I could have gratefully lived without.

[pennboricua]

I believe you need along with the rest of America to view this pictures, this is the enemy! And for the sake of your granddaughter America better wake up. We are not the enemy!

[OldFriend]

Both Rather and Brokaw have thrown all pretense to the wind and are going to do their dirty work right out in the open for the purpose of destroying the president and our country too if they can.

[magua]

BOYCOTT,BOYCOTT,BOYCOTT AND THEY WILL DIE.

[GOP_1900AD]

My determination rises with each viewing.

[Dustbunny]

THIS LATEST BEHEADING WAS DIRECTLY DUE TO SCHEMING DAN RATHER AND PROTERRORIST CBS.

Exactly but you also have to include Ted Kennedy and some of the others that apparently think that dressing someone in women's clothes is abuse.

It did not make me afraid of them it made me want to go to Iraq, hunt them down and shoot them in various parts of their bodies and allow them to bleed to death.

[Dustbunny]

THIS LATEST BEHEADING WAS DIRECTLY DUE TO SCHEMING DAN RATHER AND PROTERRORIST CBS.

Exactly but you also have to include Ted Kennedy and some of the others that apparently think that dressing someone in women's clothes is abuse.

It did not make me afraid of them it made me want to go to Iraq, hunt them down and shoot them in various parts of their bodies and allow them to bleed to death.

[vanmorrison]

What pisses ME off is that there are so damn many Americans who think just like Dan Rather...

[GOP_1900AD]

RE: "Iraq is a piece of the bigger war for our survival against Islamism." Now let me up that even further. The war against Islamism is part of the bigger war against a rising tide of anti Westernism. The rising axis want to see one thing - the destruction of the West. We need to revisit and restate - "You are either with us or you are with the terrorists." Any who cannot conclusively join the alliance, and immediately cease all assistence to terrorist groups and to rogue nations, are the enemy. We are in a fight for our lives. Welcome to WW3, which shall surpass WW2 by all measures.