Posted on 10/24/2006 5:45:48 AM PDT by kellynla
A Republican lawmaker has asked the Pentagon to bar CNN reporters from traveling with U.S. military units in Iraq because the network showed insurgent snipers shooting at U.S. troops.
The footage, aired last week on CNN, does not show the death or wounding of any service member. In one instance, the tape shows a service member milling around a public area. A shot is fired, and the tape fades to black.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said that airing the video was irresponsible because it could encourage more attacks on U.S. troops.
"Does CNN want America to win this thing?" Hunter asked yesterday on the network. In past wars, he said, the media was more pro-American.
"You can't be on both sides of the war," Hunter said.
CNN issued a statement saying that the decision was "a difficult one, but for a news organization, the right one. Our responsibility is to report the news." The video was delivered to the network through a contact with an insurgent leader.
In a letter released yesterday, Hunter and two other Republican House members from California asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to remove CNN from the military embedding program, in which journalists spend time with combat units in Iraq.
"CNN has now served as the publicist for an enemy propaganda film," wrote Hunter and Reps. Brian Bilbray and Darrell Issa.
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Treason is the reason for the sleezin'..........
It makes me laugh and cry that CNN views a terrorist propaganda film as "news". They don't have a clue. I hope Hunter's request to get CNN embeds out of Iraq gets some momentum. CNN has chosen sides, and its not ours.
Rick Roberts is covering this issue on his radio show in San Diego now.
You can listen online here.
http://www.760kfmb.com/listen_live/
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Thanks for the link .. listening now
He's ripping into CNN
CNN has been doing hit pieces on our troops since the day the Iraqi invasion started. Day one was that we were in a quagmire and then they claimed our troops were intentionally targeting journalists. Now i'm beginning to think that targeting "journalists", isn't such a bad idea.
If they could have flown with Mohammed Atta, I guess they would have done that too. It's just the "responsible" thing to do.
ML/NJ
Anyone who wishes to voice their outrage to CNN.
Here is the link.
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form.sound.off.html
Hopefully someone can post CNN's advertisers so we can boycott them all.
Michael Ware, the CNN Iraqi reporter with the Northern Ireland accent, is the biggest surrender monkey they have reporting.
I'm sure he's heard of friendly fire.
This needs national coverage.
"This needs national coverage."
well it just got GLOBAL EXPOSURE!
too bad the majority of the clowns in D.C. don't GIVE A DAMN!
I'm sure that CNN has given the authorities the name & the whereabouts of that "contact with an insurgent leader". This could prevent more soldiers and civilians from being murdered.
Oh wait (bangs hand on head) One has to protect it sources! What was I thinking....
Had they shown the least bit of courage and aired Saddam's snuff videos to the world before the invasion, maybe the spineless opportunists at CNN wouldn't have this footage now.
But they were too afraid.
Good idea.
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