60 Minutes II was also the one that splashed the photo's from Abu Gharib all over the planet.
It's past time in the country to have a "dialogue" about freedom of speech versus RESPONSIBILITY. For example, with the Abu Gharib story, while the show had the perfect right to air the photo's, surely they knew that there were some Americans who were being held hostage by insurgents. They surely knew that the photo's were likely to inflame the Arab street.
In Thomas Hamill's autobiography, he describes being beaten by his captors in retaliation for Abu Gharib.
Abu Gharib was also NOT a new story .. the Pentagon had broken the story in print months before. There was no real justification for rushing to publish the photo's, except for the prurient interest angle, and of course, to embarass the US military and Bush.
We have LAWS in this country about slander and libel, and I just wish somebody would start using them. Perhaps if the Delay story gets too out of line, Mr. Delay will have the resources to sue the F*** out of them. Carol Burnett was able to collect a couple of million a while back.
Again, the MSM has the perfect right to publish anything it wants to. However, I just wish CONSEQUENCES would be at least considered. Unfortunately, while libs LOVE freedom, they seem to have a real aversion to things like CONSEQUENCES and RESPONSIBILITY.
Pictures are worth a thousand words..They don't care about consequences to others and certainly not to our war on terror, military mission in Iraq, or individual soldiers ..
It's the press and they have the freedom to print it,broadcast it and the desire to hurt the administration
They did it first..that's what is important,too.