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What would I have done?

Well how about for once telling the truth, the whole truth and more or less nothing but the truth. The American public turned a blind eye because CNN were the enablers that let them and him off the moral hook.

But what they could have done is presented the truth about Iraq. Maybe it would not have changed Sadam - but maybe continual bad publicity would have.

In fact, how many more people died than necessary becuase right up to the end, if you listened to the spin CNN put on things, there was every hope and expectation that George Bush would let Sadam off the hook. They played it as though it was a negotiation, and Sadam was just bargaining for better terms. Weaselee Clark let everyone believe that we were bogged down and were about to start suing for terms.

The list just goes on and on.

So, as I said, I would tell the truth. As Mark Twain wrote - you will gratify some peope and astonish the rest.

And now I will ask you? Why do you even have to ask? I mean really, why?

Because like this war, I value life - all life. That sometimes involves making tough decisions. For instance, the peaceniks pretend to care about the lives of Iraqi citizens, when in truth they could care less about them. The peaceniks don't have an answer about the lives of Iraqis who have faced the atrocities outlined in the article and more. War obviously involved the death of more people - American GIs, Iraqi citizens, Iraqi military, etc. However, the tradeoff is that many lives have been saved from a brutal dictator. I believe that the man who wrote this article truly wanted to make sure that the lives of CNN employees were not jeopardized. As I'm sure you are aware, it is not so far fetched to believe that Saddam or Uday, or anyone else in his brutal regime would put to death anyone that would help American media publicize these acts.

But the question shouldn't be why didn't he publicize these stories before. The question should be why they didn't focus on publicizing stories that could be told. We have thousands of Iraqis in this country who could have told their stories on CNN without jeopardizing lives. Those stories should have been told.