Al Jazeera helps militancy - Rumsfeld

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Al Jazeera helps militancy - Rumsfeld

06/04/2005 2:30 am

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Saturday that Arab news channel Al Jazeera was encouraging Islamic militant groups by broadcasting beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq.

Al Jazeera broadcasts footage from militant groups, often showing hostages being brutally killed by their captors or foreign captives pleading at gunpoint for their governments to withdraw troops from Iraq.

"If anyone lived in the Middle East and watched a network like the Al Jazeera day after day after day, even if he was an American, he would start waking up and asking what's wrong. But America is not wrong. It's the people who are going on television chopping off people's heads, that is wrong," he said.

"And television networks that carry it and promote it and jump on the spark every time there is a terrorist act are promoting the acts," he told a security conference in Singapore.


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[thebigidea]

1. and FOX helps fascists, but we let em pollute the airwaves.

we seem to kill less of their journalists overseas, too. Gee, I wonder why artillery keeps hitting Al-Jazeera journalists who aren't firmly embedded in Rumsfeld's diseased ass?

Besides, can't they get their stories straight? Last year the right wing was chastizing Al Jazeera for not showing ENOUGH beheadings and the like, claiming they were biased and instead showing footage of "coalition" soldiers on raids, spreading door to door freedom.

[expatriot]

2. Now Mr. Rumsfeld.... compared to Newsweek, who helps the miltants more?

SAQILTA (smartass question I'd like to ask - AIJPOOMA (acronym I just pulled out of my ass))

[saigon68]

13. Rumbdumb is one of the main Bush Criminals

He is a lying stinking little PISSANT.

LOL

[pinniped]

3. FU Rummy Dummy.

In other words, Dummy doesn't want to see what's really going on over there.

Dummy and his cronies are the ones who made that fake fat Osama video and that probably caused a few more hate crimes. Thanks for encouraging them with your fake tape, Dummy.

Send this POS to the gulag.

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[LostInAnomie]

5. I think the Operation Steal Oil probably helped militancy more...

... than anything.

Fuck You Rummy!

[burrowowl]

6. Oh! BS!

I do like the animated cartoonn it's very good. And the poll, as for the news about same level as BBC.
Rummy thinks that if news doesn't sign off with seig heil, it is not news.

[LiberalVoice]

7. Oh jeebus...

"And television networks that carry it and promote it and jump on the spark every time there is a terrorist act are promoting the acts,"

Shove it up your ass Rummy....You must have missed EVERY SINGLE major US news station rant non stop on 5/11 about absolutly nothing!

[aquart]

8. So Rumsfeld is saying that beheading westerners

Is inspiring to the people of the Middle East, not revolting and disgusting.

Kinda sad that he wants Al Jazeera to be just like FOx and CNN.

[izzie]

9. Times change and this guy is to old thinking for this job.,

I swear they are all one step out of riding a horse into battle. In fact we have spent years trying not to ride anything into battle and stop the battle before it starts. This is like WW1 with men thinking war is great because they had large armies. RR was the same. Wars will fix anything but do not let the voters see men get killed in wars.

[Kenergy]

10. Rumsfeld is full of shit

He doesn't want the world to see the truth is what he's saying.
He's a war criminal, plain and simple.

[Bob3]

11. Fox Channel helps you sell your swill

So shut the fuck up.

[Frederik]

12. Rumsfeld helps militancy

And does anyone understand what he's trying to say here?

"If anyone lived in the Middle East and watched a network like the Al Jazeera day after day after day, even if he was an American, he would start waking up and asking what's wrong. But America is not wrong."

Start waking up... But America is not wrong! So go back to sleep!

:rofl:

[dbt]

14. And what would the Murkin Media be doing if the situation were

reversed? Ya reckon there'd be any encouraging of militant groups over here? There would damn well be a Radio Free Dixie operating in the South, encouraging the deer-hunters-turned-resistance-fighters!

As usual, Reptile Rummy misses the big picture completely--or CHOOSES not to talk about it for fear of leaving the Regime open to question. As IF!

The big picture is one of motivation. WHY are "hostages being brutally killed by their captors or foreign captives pleading at gunpoint for their governments to withdraw troops from Iraq?" The answer is because the Americans have invaded that country for no good reason and have DELIBERATELY fucked it up beyond repair.

Fuck Rumsfeld and the Pale Horse he rode in on!

[Briar]

15. What he means is that it is easy to bully the US media

into supporting the party line and concealing the truth - that America is wrong, every day, in every way. Al Jazeera has so far managed to survive his attempts to silence them - even when they come in the form of missiles.

[truthisfreedom]

16. the problem is the truth, rummy. is that what bugs you?

the truth? you CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH.