MSNBC, Arnett Complicit in Geneva Violations?

[ThomWilkerson]

MSNBC, ARNETT Complicit in Geneva Violations??

I noticed last night during the Iraqi news conference when Iraqi VP Taha Yassin Ramadan (who is responsible for the mass murder of Kurds and Shiites) boasted to Peter Arnett [now with MSNBC/Nat'l Geo] and other 'objective international journalists' that IraqiTV would soon be showing 'captured American soldiers', that NOT ONE journalist, [esp Arnett!!!] raised their voice to complain that such action and video was a gross violation of the Geneva Accords.

Therfore IMO, Arnett is also complicit in these outrageous Geneva violations against our servicemen and I have written a strongly worded letter to letters@msnbc.com to complain.

[lsee]

http://www.drudgereport.com/AJ.jpg

Drudge report posted some pictures of alleged dead soldiers on website right now...

[TheOtherOne]

Get a grip.

[LenS]

I'm no Arnett fan (he should be shot on sight), but I did see a network embedded reporter sticking his camera up close on a couple of Iraqi POW's. He even picked up one's MRE package to show to the camera.

[merrin]

They probably didn't know. Ignorance is even more widespread among journalists than bias.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

tell arnett to go find a baby milk factory!

[APBaer]

If I were a prisoner I would be very happy to have my picture on TV. It would thereafter be more difficult to "be disappeared" and to have my captors say "APBaer, never heard of him".

[Boundless]

> that NOT ONE journalist, [esp Arnett!!!] raised their
> voice to complain that such action and video was a gross
> violation of the Geneva Accords.

All of these reporters have minders, who at this point are
probably armed, and would shoot them immediately.

The outrage is that the host network talking heads don't
bother to remind the audience before or after each such
report.

[AmericanVictory]

Will Arnett do for MSNBC what he did for CNN in the '91 war?

Will he turn another network into a tool for the Saddam gang while harming America as much as he can?

Stay tuned.

[ThomWilkerson]

First of all, as a veteran newsman and war correspondent, Arnett, esp SHOULD KNOW that taking and showing such videos of POWs is a gross violation of Geneva Accords. The fact that he said nothing to object to it means that, in effect, he is complicit in its criminality.

TO THE POSTER WHO RAISED THE COMPARISON,
As to comparing an embedded US network journalist coming across and showing how well Iraqi EPWs are being cared for and treated by US/UK forces to the VILE IraqiTV boasting of how they have brutally interrogated and murdered US personel is such a gross comparison, I can hardly speak!
SHAME ON YOU!

[Wolverine]

Hey Arnett WHERE'S Bernie....??? In retirement, made enough off the war...Peter, when will you have enough to retire? /sarcasm.

[Jimmy Valentine]

You will be lucky if Arnett doesn't accuse the United States of using poison gas like he did in his video about Vietnam.

Regards,

[LenS]

I'm not comparing them. I'm pointing out that both are violations of the Convention. Showing prisoners, both well-treated and abused, are violations. Clearly, the Iraqis are violating many more of the Convention's tenets than that simple one. But Arnett's is, as far as we can see for now, only committing the same violation of that one rule.

To be honest, the traitor is doing us a favor without intending to do so. The Iraqis won't be able to claim that these men weren't prisoners now. And US public opinion will be even more merciless after those pictures. For that matter, our troops will fight even harder and harbor less hesitations about slaughtering the enemy.

[LenS]

Another point, the US journalist with that film may have caused the deaths of those Iraqi's families. If Saddam's security forces ID them from the photos, they'll probably make an example of their families. That'll discourage further surrenders. Better to show prisoners only at a distance (enough to show that Iraqi's are surrendering, but not enough for Saddam's killers to react to).

[Ann Archy]

I saw that also and thought...isn't that against the Geneva Convention. I think it was on MSNBC.

[arjay]

What about the families of those prisoners? It is against he Geneva Convention to show these pictures. We have no need and no right to be shown those pictures.

[kaboom]

Can anyone clarify the distinction (aside from the treatment that followed) between the daily news footage that we have been seeing of surrendered Iraqi soldiers and the taped footage of US soldiers? I know that the Iraqi soldiers will be treated and fed better than they have ever been, but it was shocking to see some field reporter with a video-phone walking up to Iraqui soldiers as they were being processed.

Is the difference between a soldier in the process of surrendering vs post processing?