The military has long treated CNN as a quasi-propaganda and spy agency for the enemies of this country since at least Desert Storm, when we used the useless fools to feed false information to Saddam Hussein. We knew that they couldn't wait to breathlessly report on our troop movements and to pontificate on how the opening phases of our war to liberate Kuwait would go. Gen Scwarzkopf was smart enough to realize this and fed them just what he wanted the Iraqis to know. His staff would then monitor the broadcasts to make sure the useful idiots did their job. CNN would not have done it on their own so they had to be made to feel that they had the inside track.
It is something I don't think the folks at CNN have ever gotten over.
Well, after doing this for years to the U.S. military they have decided to do the same to the Iraqi security forces, and in the process endanger the lives of the young women who are taking the extraordinary step of joining the Iraqi security forces to protect the citizens of the country.
What has my underwear in a bunch? This:
Though the women marched, drilled and learned the basics of handling a gun, they asked that a news crew obscure their faces on television and otherwise not reveal their identities.So what does CNN do? They publish a full frontal picture of the women in training clearly showing their faces.
Saying "oops, sorry about that" to the family of someone who suffers because of your irresponsible reporting just doesn't quite cut it. "My bad" is not going to replace the life of someone who loses theirs trying to achieve something far greater then anything you will ever accomplish in some afternoon editorial board meeting.
And no, CNN will never express any regrets about anybody they knowingly cause harm to, just like they didn't when they told terrorist snipers where to aim to defeat our body armor or where the weak spots were on our vehicles.
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