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ABC News: claims new "prison abuse scandal" at GITMO
August 3, 2004

Posted on 08/03/2004 4:18:04 PM PDT by ejdrapes

I'm driving home from work and at the top of the hour ABC News comes on. Their lead story is allegations of prisoner abuse at GITMO. Prisoners claiming they were thrown in rat infested cages, kicked and punched repeatedly, blah, blah, blah. At the end of the story they say the Defense department denies the allegations and that there is no way to prove/validate the claims.

Then why the hell is that their lead story?!? I thought the news media was supposed to report FACT not rumors and allegations.


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KEYWORDS: demshateamerica; gitmo

1 posted on 08/03/2004 4:18:05 PM PDT by ejdrapes
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To: ejdrapes

We could call it "ABC Allegations"....


2 posted on 08/03/2004 4:20:59 PM PDT by woofie ( I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.)
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To: ejdrapes

This is why the media is the most dangerous entity in the world. They are powerful anti-american propagandists. They'd rather have these terrorists released and pose a grave threat than get useful information which could save millions of American lives.

The mainstream media is the al-jazeera of america.


3 posted on 08/03/2004 4:21:08 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
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To: ejdrapes

And where would the news media have gotten these "allegations" -- other than from "thin air," I mean?


4 posted on 08/03/2004 4:22:12 PM PDT by My2Cents (http://www.conservativesforbush.com)
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To: ejdrapes
"Then why the hell is that their lead story?"

You know the answer: because it can be used against Bush.
5 posted on 08/03/2004 4:22:14 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: ejdrapes
Here is a link to the story on the ABC News website.
6 posted on 08/03/2004 4:23:13 PM PDT by socal_parrot
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To: ejdrapes

BTW, ABC Radio News (which I assume you're referring to) is about as biased a "news source" as there is. NPR is far more balanced than ABC Radio News.


7 posted on 08/03/2004 4:23:15 PM PDT by My2Cents (http://www.conservativesforbush.com)
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To: ejdrapes

This from the same network that pulled a story about Lurch's mob money from their website. Poor bored reporters. I guess since Abu Ghraib fizzled they really haven't had a whole lot to do-I mean, it's not like we're closing in on Osama or anything like that, right?


8 posted on 08/03/2004 4:24:15 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Democrats are Communists in Americans' clothing.)
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To: My2Cents
And where would the news media have gotten these "allegations"

From a couple Brits that were released (per ABC radio).

They should have just shot them.

9 posted on 08/03/2004 4:24:44 PM PDT by dinasour
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To: ejdrapes
Sadly for the democRATS, they will not have any pictures to gratify themselves with. You know damn well that those Iraq prison photos were well used for some "one handed web surfing" by Liberals when they were releases.

Just tune into HBO's Real Sex and you will see much more sick stuff than the Iraq prison photos. And guess what, HBO's Real Sex is almost exclusively shot in San Fransisco, where you cannot walk 2 feet without running into a flaming pervert. As we all know, Kerry will carry the Bay area by about 50 points.

10 posted on 08/03/2004 4:25:52 PM PDT by lormand (I've got your "poll" right here.)
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To: ejdrapes

Well, we have known for some time that the cells at Gitmo are "rat infested".


11 posted on 08/03/2004 4:27:39 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: ejdrapes

Who cares if terrorists are mistreated? How about the 3,000 AMERICANS on 9/11/2001?

How about 1,000,000 Iraqi's?


12 posted on 08/03/2004 4:29:58 PM PDT by stockpirate (OBL and the Communist's supports Kerry for President, Flush the 2 Johns!)
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To: ejdrapes
Then why the hell is that their lead story?!?

 

Because beheadings & executions by the gutless enemies of our country are so passé.


13 posted on 08/03/2004 4:30:05 PM PDT by Fintan (Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.)
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To: woofie

This is a scandal?


14 posted on 08/03/2004 4:30:06 PM PDT by ShandaLear (John actually picked John before he picked John.)
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To: ejdrapes

I am concerned about the timing of this leak.


15 posted on 08/03/2004 4:30:49 PM PDT by Ron in Acreage (Kerry is a threat to national security)
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To: ejdrapes

Licorice: "Please. Give me a break. I know rat-infested cages.
Nutcase Jennings and his ilk, and my savior, John Kerry, sometimes go completely goobers.
Those were not rat-infested cages, but the means to liberate millions of Iraqi humans."

16 posted on 08/03/2004 4:34:16 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Re: Protection from up on high, Keyser Sose has nothing on Sandy Berger, the DNC Burglar)
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To: woofie

Doesn't ABC stand for Allegations Broadcasting Corporation? I think they use the same type broadcaster that farmers use to spread manure.


17 posted on 08/03/2004 4:48:26 PM PDT by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: ejdrapes

There they go again.


18 posted on 08/03/2004 5:29:59 PM PDT by vpintheak (Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
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To: ejdrapes
I question the timing of this news.

This is all political.

19 posted on 08/03/2004 5:44:50 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Diogenesis

Nice pic of Ron Reagan Jr. eating a corn chip.


20 posted on 08/03/2004 5:48:16 PM PDT by Rome2000 (The ENEMY for Kerry!!!!!)
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