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bobby78751

Mar 19 2004, 06:38 AM

This week, two arab journalists have been killed by American troops in Iraq. In this morning's press briefing from Iraq, Colin Powell was taken aback when an Arab news service made an announcement prior to his briefing that there would be a boycot of the briefing in honor of the journalists whom they say have been "murdered". A large number of journalists in the press room (of all races) stood up and walked out. In response to this, Powell said that he knows our troops did not intentionally kill the journalists, yet, only moments later when someone asked him more specifics about the shootings, his response was, "I do not have all of the information concerning this incident." How, then, is he certain of the manner these journalists died? Colin Powell's credibility has been shot by allowing himself to be another lying liar of this corrupt administration.
228 days until OUR regime change

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From CNN Story:
Also Friday, a second Al Arabiya correspondent died after being shot by U.S. troops Thursday night. An al Arabiya cameraman was shot and killed Thursday, according to the Arabic-language network.

Al Arabiya reports that U.S. troops shot the two journalists after another vehicle traveling alongside their car drove through a U.S. checkpoint without stopping.

CNN Story

DownLowNY

Mar 19 2004, 06:47 AM

This is hardly surprising. Afterall, the US military has been deliberately killing journalists from Al-Jazeera since the Afghan War in 2001. I wonder what took the Arab press so long to mount this minimal response.

bobby78751

Mar 19 2004, 08:15 AM

CNN Story about the journalist walk-out

RazorbackTX

Mar 19 2004, 08:21 AM

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bobby78751:
CNN Story about the journalist walk-out
Im sure this had nothing to do with the honorable Secretary Powell, they probably just wanted to get back to the dancing in the streets.

TomFord

Mar 19 2004, 08:35 AM

"Powell said the walkout was an expression of opinion that would not have been possible under Saddam Hussein."

Yes, but does he really need to rub that in here? These guys are responding to the death of their colleagues. They're not enemy combatants. It just seems so churlish and mean-spirited to have to resort to a "that would not have been possible under Saddam Hussein" position instead of just saying he'd look into it. You can't imagine him saying that to the colleagues of western journalists in the same situation.

jqueer

Mar 19 2004, 11:12 AM

I'm getting a little tired of the whole, "Well, we got rid of a horrible dictator" response. There are several horrible dictators in the world that are actually worse for their citizens than Saddam ever was. If toppling a bad guy who beat the help is the only justification for this war, and a year in it's the only justification still standing, then North Korea, Iran, China and several other countries should be on the hit list as well. If democracy could be brought to the world at gun point, the world woudl have been democratized long ago.

bobby78751

Mar 19 2004, 11:15 AM

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jqueer:
I'm getting a little tired of the whole, \"Well, we got rid of a horrible dictator\" response. There are several horrible dictators in the world that are actually worse for their citizens than Saddam ever was. If toppling a bad guy who beat the help is the only justification for this war, and a year in it's the only justification still standing, then North Korea, Iran, China and several other countries should be on the hit list as well. If democracy could be brought to the world at gun point, the world woudl have been democratized long ago.
But, North Korean, Iran, and Chine don't bring terra to Amerikah...and two of the three don't have any oil. We such bad-ass!

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