"The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is currently investigating the U.S. and coalition forces' bombing last night (U.S. time) of Iraqi state-run television facilities." Yeah, Iraqi TV is "state-run", and therefore a part of the Saddam regime. In fact, it seems that most if its programming involves showing slow motion video of the glorious butcher of Baghdad. I wonder how the CPJ's investigation is going with respect to Iraqi TV journalists' complicity with the murderous Saddam regime. Every trade organization and non-profit seems to see this war as a chance to jump on America's back. Even Amnesty International finally became interested in Iraq:
Amnesty International today cautioned that the bombing of the Iraqi state television station in Baghdad by US allied forces could be a breach of the Geneva Conventions. . . . According to Protocol 1 of the Geneva Conventions Article 52 (2) "Attacks shall be limited strictly to military objectives. In so far as objects are concerned, military objectives are limited to those objects which by their nature, location, purpose or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage."I suspect that constant reassurance that Uncle Saddam is still alive and well in Baghdad has a rather stifling effect on the Iraqis' desire to resist Saddam's death squads. Eliminating such reassurances would certainly be advantageous to the liberating armies.
