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"Reuters says US troops obstruct reporting of Iraq By Barry Moody | September 28, 2005 LONDON (Reuters) - The conduct of U.S. troops in Iraq, including increasing detention and accidental shootings of journalists, is preventing full coverage of the war reaching the American public, Reuters said on Wednesday. In a letter to Virginia Republican Sen. John Warner, head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Reuters said U.S. forces were limiting the ability of independent journalists to operate. The letter from Reuters Global Managing Editor David Schlesinger called on Warner to raise widespread media concerns about the conduct of U.S. troops with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who is due to testify to the committee on Thursday. Schlesinger referred to "a long parade of disturbing incidents whereby professional journalists have been killed, wrongfully detained, and/or illegally abused by U.S. forces in Iraq." He urged Warner to demand that Rumsfeld resolve these issues "in a way that best balances the legitimate security interests of the U.S. forces in Iraq and the equally legitimate rights of journalists in conflict zones under international law." At least 66 journalists and media workers, most of them Iraqis, have been killed in the Iraq conflict since March 2003."

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/09/28/reuters_says_us_troops_obstruct_reporting_of_iraq?mode=PF

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"The death toll in Iraq compares with a total of 63 journalists in Vietnam, but which was over a period of 20 years from 1955 to 1975, the Paris-based organisation that campaigns to protect journalists said on its Web site."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28219813.htm

We won't tolerate bad news.

9/28/2005 12:03:02 PM

ha, STOP COMPARING THIS TO VIETNAM

JEEZ

9/28/2005 12:04:56 PM

You're right. Vietnam and Iraq have nothing in common. We lost the war in Vietnam, and we're losing the peace in Iraq.

9/28/2005 12:20:15 PM

We lost the War of 1812 too

WHY ARENT YOU COMPARING THAT TO VIETNAM?

9/28/2005 12:28:28 PM

How many reporters did our troops kill in the War of 1812?

9/28/2005 12:47:47 PM

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"Paris-based "

credibility

9/28/2005 12:51:45 PM

I dunno about reporters but man I ain't seen a Native American in 6 years.

9/28/2005 12:52:36 PM

Who knows. Just like you don't know the number of reporters killed by coalition troops or the circumstances.

9/28/2005 12:52:38 PM

We don't know, because if it's reported....there's a penalty.

9/28/2005 12:56:03 PM

Your right, the insurgents threaten to kill more of them.

9/28/2005 1:07:09 PM

we cannot believe independent French sources b/c they hate freedom

9/28/2005 1:13:15 PM

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"we cannot believe independent French sources b/c they hate freedomAmerica"

sorry had to fix that for you since youre obviously incompetent.

9/28/2005 1:16:38 PM

there once was a time when reporters were smart enough to stay out of a hot war zone.

9/28/2005 1:58:57 PM

if French sources are all automatically considered to be biased, then should American sources be viewed in the same way? I mean, we have a lot more at stake in the conflict than the French do...

9/28/2005 2:00:00 PM

"Hey, om, excuse me Mr. Suicide Bomber...do you think you could allow us media folks to get some good photography before you blow yourself up? I mean, I know this is war and all but come on, the media is trying to share the story"

I wonder how many of the media that have been killed did the same type thing as Geraldo, ie telling the enemies where some allies were in order to be able to film a battle...gosh the media are the epitome of classy and honorable

9/28/2005 3:00:40 PM

yeah dude

those civilians are asking for it

9/28/2005 3:10:31 PM

they shouldn't have worn that dress

9/28/2005 3:14:43 PM

i like when geraldo ambushed US soldiers

thats totally justifyable

9/28/2005 3:16:06 PM

maybe the soldiers were asking for it..

9/28/2005 3:16:33 PM

im sure they were asking for a journalist to snitch their position to some enemies...that makes lots of sense

9/28/2005 3:19:20 PM

i meant asking for it in the sense of being imperialist nazi zionist pig dogs

what whateva

9/28/2005 3:21:54 PM

a journalist doing something like THAT is seditious - downright treasonous

we have courts to deal with that kind of thing

9/28/2005 3:22:24 PM

eh, that's what all the peaceniks want

or so David Whore-o-wits tells me

9/28/2005 3:23:49 PM

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"The My Lai Massacre Marines blow up Viet Cong bunkers and tunnels. On March 16, 1968 the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai. "This is what you've been waiting for -- search and destroy -- and you've got it," said their superior officers. A short time later the killing began. When news of the atrocities surfaced, it sent shockwaves through the U.S. political establishment, the military's chain of command, and an already divided American public."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/my_lai.html

9/29/2005 9:57:31 PM

i like how both those were from england and france

9/29/2005 10:02:11 PM

im sick of this anti-europe thing. "ooh, we cant trust something from outside the US". what if they (shock!) were actually a good independent source, even though they dont fit into your view of what the war and the media should be about!

9/29/2005 10:19:32 PM

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"he death toll in Iraq compares with a total of 63 journalists in Vietnam, but which was over a period of 20 years from 1955 to 1975, the Paris-based organisation that campaigns to protect journalists said on its Web site."

hmmm, wow! what an amazing stat! I mean, its not like the the density of journalists in the war-zone has increased much since vietnam. And its not like the type of warfare that took place in Vietnam was different than the type of warfare that is now taking place in Iraq.

BTW, its a fact that more people died in the year 2004AD than died in the year 2000BC. Clearly it is all Dubya's fault, too!

9/29/2005 10:33:01 PM