2007-06-12 02:43:39 · 22 answers · asked by Brotherhood 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
http://www.cpj.org/killed/killed06.html
2007-06-12 02:56:04 · update #1
Here's the source some of you may be asking for.
2007-06-12 02:57:07 · update #2
Let's all thank Cassandra for this link.
http://www.rsf.org/special_iraq_en.php3
2007-06-12 03:04:49 · update #3
Because there are factions in Iraq who used the murder of reporters to terrorize us into leaving (we never should have been there in the first place, of course, but it, of course, doesn't excuse executing innocents.)
Because there are factions in Iraq who can't retain support if the truth is told about them.
Because the Bush Crime Family must suppress honest talk about what they do.
We know our army fired directly at hotel floors known by the US military to be housing reporters. We know Bush planned to bomb Al Jazeera. We know he 'embedded' the troops, so they couldn't objectively cover the war.
---edit -- my my my everyone was soooooo proud of bush, bush's war, america's shock and awe (not me, ever) but now, it's 'your congress' war' - you know, that majority republican congress that voted for the war (majority of dems in house voted against it.)
No wonder bush is drinking again, his friends are just good time charlies..... your congress' war ..... what a joke.
is this how my fellow americans who rah rahed this war in the most disgusting and bloodlusting fashion can cope with the blood on their hands? pretend it was the fault of the side trying to stop it?
this is pathetic and disgusting. it reveals such weak character and weak psychological functioning in the people running around telling us all how to act and think and feel.
save me jebus.
2007-06-12 02:51:31 · answer #1 · answered by cassandra 6 · 1⤊ 8⤋
Name one journalist that has been imprisoned and killed by George Bush? I do not think you will find a single one of them. How ever if you look at the people Bush is trying to fight you will find a long list of people that have been kidnapped, imprisoned and killed. Namely Daniel Pearl. It is not Bush's fault that journalists believe they are safe from the terrorists and Iran just because they have a press badge on.
Yet, we continue to hear the lib's bash Bush for a war in which if Bush wins will bring the freedom of the press to the world.
What I find as interesting is that even though the Press supports the work of the terrorists and insurgents they still target and kill the press. I guess it just feeds fodder to the Bush haters to claim how evil Bush is.
2007-06-12 02:50:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋
IF your source is true... big if here. Its probably due to more journalists going out on their own thinking they can just talk to the other side and get the real story. Not thinking that they could be used in any other way, shape or form. In other words their poor perspective on the issue gets them in trouble.
2007-06-12 03:04:57 · answer #3 · answered by Robert S 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the place do you get this rubbish? Are you extremely attempting to assert that the yank President is to blame of all this? What appropriate to the people we are combating? How properly do you think of they are abiding by the Geneva convention? Your question is an absurd shaggy dog tale and your loss of sophistication is disgraceful. SO - I think of which you anti- conflict supporters think of we are shooting at good sort-hearted harmless people over in Iraq now - desirable?
2016-10-17 00:28:56 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with a lot of the other folks it's because there are more of them embedded with the troops than ever before and even with that they still don't tell the whole story of what's going on because to show the good the troops are doing won't sell newpapers, or make people watch the news at 6. God Bless our Troops and our country....
2007-06-12 03:08:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because more journalists have embedded themselves within the geographic confines of the war than any other war in history.
2007-06-12 02:47:55 · answer #6 · answered by Scotty Doesnt Know 7 · 11⤊ 0⤋
Perhap's because there's a war on. Many were killed in other wars too. Then again more people were killed in other wars too and they were drafted. Talk about forced.
2007-06-12 02:48:50 · answer #7 · answered by melanie 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
that is actually just a consequence of advancing technology. during vietnam, no journalists had the means to go over there and those who did go had a huge risk. The war in Iraq, more journalists keep going over there and the terrorists don't care if they are journalists, they are (in essence) savages that don't care who they kill... but you can blame their losses on the "need" for bad footage and advancign technology
2007-06-12 02:48:15 · answer #8 · answered by topdawg3748 2 · 9⤊ 2⤋
Because in the history of war there have never been so many reporters embedded with the military.
2007-06-12 02:47:05 · answer #9 · answered by ColoradoBrew 2 · 12⤊ 0⤋
There is more of them than ever before and they just get in the way. There is a war going on. Besides, I don't think those statistics exist.
2007-06-12 02:55:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋