A little unclear on the concept
It seems to have escaped everyone's notice that, under the previous regime, this would have been, at minimum, a firing squad offense...
Al Baghdadiya in turn has called for the reporter's release. The network said that freeing al-Zaidi would be in line with what it called the "freedom of expression" the U.S. has promised all Iraqis.Of course, this being Iraq, there has to be further ironic icing on this particular "clown cake"...
Saddam Hussein's former chief lawyer told al Jazeera network that he would defend al-Zaidi in court.Oh gawd... stop it... yer killin' me.
Predictably, the loony left... the people who scream in pain if there is but a single word of criticism about Saint Barack... are wetting themselves with glee.
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Out here throwing a pie at someone's face is probably an apt comparison as a demonstration of political derision.
I remember when, I think, Uljal Dosanj or Glen Clark, either way both were NDP leaders and Premiers of British Columbia. Anyhow someone threw a pie at one of them and got arrested and charged with assault.
So yeah as you point out, in the Saddam days said reporter would have been shot on the spot. Today it seems he's getting relatively the same treatment he'd get over here: detainment and charges.
What is amusing is the lefty jump in along with said dictatorial political regimes. However I remember reading Micheal Yon's blog a while ago where he was talking to on the street Iraqis who held varied views from Bush as a sort of hero to at least someone who understood their plight even with the suffering that occured after the invasion, to being blamed for not thinking the whole thing through (but still grateful for the demise of Saddam).
I'd like to hear the MSM go around and ask average Iraqis their opinion of Bush sometime instead of the opinions of the leaders of Syria and other bastions of human rights.
*"langmann says... in the Saddam days said reporter would have been shot on the spot."
and, the fact is, that would have been the 'best case' scenario.
i imagine what would actually have happened would have been an extended session of "fun and games" with pliers and blowtorches... and later, after everybody got their yah-yahs out... they would have brought in a firing squad to seal the deal.
i see people holding this guy up as a hero and my first selfish thought is... why not just pull out and let these homegrown dumbsticks burn the whole place to the ground?
democracy... it's a hard road.
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'Progressives' really miss Saddam Hussein and the good old days when no one could hear Iraqis scream, those were simpler times, CNN could devote almost all their time to Hollywood back then.
What I love is what I call the MSM's Bias Bluff.
They love to proclaim they are unbiased and will cite evidence from their articles demonstrating that they have told both sides of the story. What they do though is put their slant at the beginning of the article and then state the truth at the end, past the point where most people read.
This recent happening and article at MSNBC is an example of what I mean. Here is one at NBC
Note how they quote a bunch of Iraqis who have a bad opinion of Bush or twist the words of some Iraqis. The entire article is anti-Bush. Then at the end they state conveniently: "While the reactions to the shoe-toss vary, many Iraqis still believe that Bush has done well by them by making them get rid of Saddam Hussein and that he is not to be blamed for the consequences of toppling the dictator."
Of course they don't provide any quotes from these Bush friendly Iraqis.
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yup... spin, spin, spin.
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