Pro-torture Cliff Kincaid: Al Qaeda Loves Our Unpatriotic Media

[BlueEyedSon]

Not to mention the continued conflation of 9/11 with Iraq.....

The Washington Post has pulled out of a Pentagon-sponsored Freedom Walk to commemorate 9/11 and support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan because it was deemed too political. Meanwhile, the New York Times, CBS, and other news organizations have joined with the ACLU in demanding that the Pentagon release more sensational photos and videos of Iraqi prisoner abuse. The inevitable result of such disclosure, according to General Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is that Islamic terrorists will exploit the material and kill Americans. Do our media care?

Our media will rally around a reporter who goes to jail to protect her sources. But when the Pentagon tries to keep potential propaganda material from falling into the hands of the enemy, the media are in court with the ACLU against the Pentagon.

More puke-a-licious commentary: http://www.aim.org/aim_column/3951_0_3_0_C/

[90-percent]

1. uhhhh

It's an equally valid arguement that NOT RELEASING THE PHOTOS will enrage the terrorists.

Everyone knows terrorists want American's to take responsibility for their actions. Covering up your actions by not releasing the photos only supports the terrorists.

-85%

[struggle4progress]

2. Why link to anything on a rightwing site like AIM? eom

[BlueEyedSon]

3. So the more gifted here can write him a letter about what an idiot

he is. For example:

Flouting the Geneva conventions puts our own troops in danger.
The Torture was real bad.
The approval & orders went all the way to the top.
etc.

I'm just a crappy writer.

[struggle4progress]

4. It's more to productive to aim at the people whose minds we can change.

The hardcore rightwingers aren't going to listen ...

[BlueEyedSon]

5. People in the media need to be called on their lies, and realize that

they do not hold a majority opinion, IMHO.

But why should I speak, for I know nothing....

[struggle4progress]

6. But A.I.M. isn't really media: it's a rightwing thinktank that simply ..

.. pushes rightwing nonsense. We can complain endlessly to them: they'll always push reichwing nonsense ...