As despicable as it is to spike stories and completely sacrifice their journalistic integrity, to a degree I can understand their concern for associates in Iraq that would surely have been killed had the stories come out. (Not saying I think it was the right thing to do or the right way to handle it - they essentially made themselves a propaganda organ for an oppressive regime.)
I think the part that convicts them most is that they absolutely refused to cut President Bush even the SLIGHTEST amount of slack leading up to this war and during it.
WHY? If they had their own experience with a regime that was brutal, WHY DID THEY SIDE AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH?
(And I've watched - I am stuck watching CNN when I work out at my club, and I cannot BELIEVE how biased they have been regarding this war.)
As someone said earlier, they have Iraqi blood on their hands.
I think they're covered with it.
" ... to a degree I can understand their concern for associates in Iraq that would surely have been killed had the stories come out."
They should have just left...
They have no integrity or truth or honor in them...