[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!

[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).