[Tall_Texan]

I wasn't defending CNN. I was merely expanding this beyond Iraq's borders. There are other tyrants in the world that would muzzle any independent reporting just as much as Saddam or moreso. It's just that we're at war in Iraq today, not North Korea or Iran. CNN would make the same faustian deal with those countries as they did with Hussein. Every time.

We Americans and our first amendment are held with little regard in parts of the world where this constitutional right is not taken for granted. Tyrants are perfectly willing to let the media be their propaganda tool and if the guests don't play by their rules, they're executed or tossed out.

Saddam didn't invent this game. In fact, he probably was more subtle about it than some other dictators.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Tyrants are perfectly willing to let the media be their propaganda tool and if the guests don't play by their rules, they're executed or tossed out.

The honorable solution would have been to do the opposite, to stay here and write bloody flag stories to get the SOB dictator overthrown.