Don't EVER wonder why your viewership numbers are in the toilet and slowly swirling down the drain. You are the Al Jazeera of the Western world.
EXACTLY! *This* is CNN's greatest sin in this matter.
It's one thing to fail to report the atrocities in order to (they claim) prevent further risk of life.
But it's another thing entirely to have *known* how bad the Iraqi regime was, and then to editorially blatantly *oppose* and *obstruct* administration efforts to actually do something about it. All along, CNN's editorial position has been akin to, "why is Bush going after that nice Saddam guy?", and acting like a paid arm of the "no blood for oil" peaceniks.