You are NOT going to believe how CNN covered the wikileaks story...

[kpete]

You are not going to believe how CNN covered this story today:
VIDEO:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/cover-up-news-network.html

And here's the caption for the video:

Newly released video shows a 2007 attack by a U.S. Apache helicopter in Iraq. Several people were killed in the attack, two of them journalists. The helicopter crew members believed they were firing on armed insurgents.
FULL STORY

I don't think they were being ironic, although the excuse that they are sparing the families of the slain journalists is certainly farcical.

The most trusted name in news?

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/cover-up-news-network.html

[abelenkpe]

1. I believe it. CNN sucks. nt

[no limit]

2. When I saw that online yesterday I was absolutely shocked how they spun this.

Absolutely disgusting.

[rurallib]

3. CNN wonders why no one watches them.

"Barbara Starr Pentagon shill"

[chill_wind]

4. Somewhere this morning, Eason T. Jordon is pacing up and down,

madly laughing and crying, and talking to himself in compete gibberish.

And I'm sure it hasn't been the first or only morning since April 2003.

[Karmadillo]

5. Corporate media covering up US war crimes? Standard Operating Procedure.

nt

[EFerrari]

23. We wouldn't be in Iraq without CNN and the rest of the presstitutes.

They're just as guilty as they guys pulling those triggers.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Remember how CNN's Barbara Starr reported the rape and murder of 14 year old Abeer Qassim?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080700346.html

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She kept referring to Abeer as "the woman."

I really hate these people.

Don

[msongs]

7. you are not going to believe the public comments the CIC made about this yesterday. oh wait.... nt

[zbdent]

8. Did Faux report that it was under Pelosi's orders?

Or did they tag the video as from 2009, so that it could be under Obama's orders?

[fishbulb703]

9. self-delete

Didn't watch the full video for some reason.

[grahamhgreen]

10. We do believe that that the military industrial complex is actually trying to kill civilians. This

is how they make money?

By getting people to kill each other.

I did not wee any AK's, and even so, everyone in Iraq has one.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Half the time they're identifying the cameras as guns or RPG launchers

I'm not absolutely sure there were any guns there. But CNN stopped the video, and so as well as not showing the point at which they killed most of the people, they didn't show the pilots saying "go on, pick up a gun, I want a reason to shoot you again" about the wounded man. And then a van arrives, tries to help the wounded man, and the helicopter opens fire on it, killing more, and wounding 2 children in the van. The van's occupants were not doing anything illegal or even suspicious. They were being good human beings, and stopping to help an injured man. And CNN didn't even talk about that bit.

No, the heli audio has nothing to do with anyone on the ground calling in support. The people on the ground say they're not in the area. The helicopter has seen some people in the street, decide they're carrying AK47s, and want permission to kill them for that.

[fishbulb703]

14. If you look at when the man is crouched by the corner.

He is clearly holding a rifle at the ready position while looking down the street, if not actually firing.

Do you think the military would release this if it was incriminating?

[frylock]

18. the military DIDN'T release this..

it was LEAKED to wikileaks.

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12. Let's pretend it's ok to make these kinds of life and death decisions miles away from the air

using a shitty resolution camera when no american soldiers are in any immidiate danger. For the sake of the argument lets pretend that this is ok (it's not). For the sake of the argument lets forget that virtually everyone in Iraq owns an AK-47.

How do you justify what followed when an unarmed man arrived minutes later in a van trying to help the wounded? There was absolutely no provacation yet these soldiers were in a hurry to shoot that van up possibly killing 2 children in the process. Please, explain how that is SOP.

[fishbulb703]

13. Did you watch the video?

They are being called in for air support, so obviously someone on the ground thinks they are a threat. (Remember gunships operate as close air support, they just don't circle cities looking for groups of Arabs to mow down.) So how you make the claim that "no Americans are in danger" (as if it matters that they are American or not) is beyond my comprehension.

I did not watch the video to the point of the man arriving in the van, and I don't think the video on wikileaks lasted that long. I can't comment on what I haven't seen.

[no limit]

15. Yes I watched the video and yes the video on wikileaks shows the van not sure why you didnt watch it

Go watch it, not having seen this murder is not an excuse on your part. Once you see it come back and explain how what they did is justified.

How do I make the claim that no ground troops were in immediate danger? Because it took them well over 15 minutes to arrive on the scene. Yet these guys were eager to increas their kill/death ratio as if it were a fucking game.

[fishbulb703]

19. Wow, don't know why I didn't watch the second half.

I completely take back what I said. That's fucked up.

[Ghost Dog]

24. Good on you for your further analysis and self-correction. n/t

[ieoeja]

20. The helicopter crew apparently thought they were terrorist allies coming to rescue a terrorist.

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21. Unarmed terrorsit allies. And great that you can kill a bunch of people because of an assumption

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

16. AP reported it as a firefight. Sigh......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8092842

[Echo In Light]

17. .

[progressoid]

22. Not surprised. nt

[Gravel Democrat]

25. As soon as the former Assistant Secretary of State & spokesman for the US State Departments Wife...

checks in everything will be A.O.K.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Amanpour

Hey look here, Chrissie has a little present for her followers a few wars back:


http://newamericancentury.org/balkans.htm
That war had a baby who's now a smelly teen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Bondsteel