Iraqi Journalist for New York Times Killed In Baghdad
AP Via Yahoo:
Gunmen killed an Iraqi journalist from The New York Times as he drove to work Friday, the third staffer of a Western news organization to be killed in the past two days. In his last moments, Khalid W. Hassan called his mother on his cell phone and told her he had been shot.
Hassan, 23, was the second Times employee killed in the Iraq conflict, in which 110 journalists and 40 media support staffers have been killed since the 2003 U.S. invasion, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The Times said the circumstances of the attack remain unclear. Hassan was driving to work when he called the bureau to say his normal route to the office was blocked by a security checkpoint so he was taking a different path.
Less than an hour later, he was attacked in the Sadiyah district of southwest Baghdad. He was able to call his mother, telling her, "I've been shot." His family later called the bureau and reported he had been killed, the paper said. Read more...
5 years since bush's invasion, the country is still a slaughterhouse.
Why do I get the feeling this death of a NY Times reporter will be ok with the right wing blabbermouths like O'reilly, Hannity and Limbaugh.
"There's Adam Clymer -- major league asshole -- from the New York Times," Bush said. "Yeah, big time," returned Cheney.
The Neocon Dance of Death continues
If the globe is quickly warming, bomb Iraq.
If the poor will soon be storming, bomb Iraq.
We assert that might makes right,
Burning oil is a delight,
For the empire we will fight,
Bomb Iraq.
Another kid dead before he even had a chance to live.
Hassan, who worked for the paper in Baghdad for four years, "was part of a large, sometimes unsung community of Iraqi news-gatherers, translators, and support staff, who take enormous risks every day to help us comprehend their country's struggle and torment," Times executive editor Bill Keller said. "Without them, Americans' understanding of what is happening on the ground in Iraq would be much, much poorer."
Think about how bad the coverage would be without these guys. Then the media over here censors a lot of what these guys report.
And all Pelosi has to do is calmly place impeachment back upon the table where it belongs.
And reichwingers tried to disparage Al Gore's Stars and Stripes assignments in Vietnam as somehow not being as brave as boosh's learning to fly in Texas in out moded planes. That is when they could get him away from the bar and out of the officer's club.
When I get stripes I see stars too.
Seele^ @ 1:
Pardon moi, now it's abattoir.
Times journalist killed.
Jonah Goldberg and John Podhoretz wet their pants with glee.
Also, courtesy of the Friday the 13th Presser, here's Tony Snow on the Cheney Administration's attitude regarding the U.S. military:
Q Is the Iraqi government and the Iraqi parliament taking the month of August off?
MR. SNOW: Probably, yes. Just not --
Q They're taking the entire month of August off, before the September deadline?
MR. SNOW: It looks like they may, yes. Just like the U.S. Congress is.
Q Have you tried to talk them out of that?
MR. SNOW: You know, it's 130 degrees in Baghdad in August, I'll pass on your recommendation.
Q Well, Tony, Tony, I'm sorry, that's -- you know -- I mean, there are a lot of things that happen by September and it's 130 degrees for the U.S. military also on the ground --
MR. SNOW: You know, that's a good point. And it's 130 degrees for the Iraqi military. The Iraqis, you know, I'll let them -- my understanding is that at this juncture they're going to take August off, but, you know, they may change their minds.
P.S. Where's the clip on this one at C&L?
John P. Normanson @ 12:
Bushes August vacation is coming up also.
So...then....why are building UP forces in Iraq?
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-iraq-air-surge-i,0,6...
I thought we were leaving.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security... a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people...
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither...
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Meanwhile, former NYTimes hack Judith Miller rests comfortably at home.
Pinch and Keller should re-hire Miller and send her to Iraq. But only if she agrees not to be "embedded".
War and Dissociation
A Psychological Defense Against Suffering and Feelings of Powerlessness
By SUSAN ROSENTHAL, MD
When Tina Turner sang, "Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken," we all knew what she meant. In a world filled with pain, nature provides a defence against suffering called dissociation.
Experiences that are too horrible to be integrated into our understanding of the world are split off from conscious awareness. Dissociation provides a mental escape when there is no physical escape.
Dissociation separates contradictory experiences to avoid internal conflict, making it possible to love our own children and support wars that kill other people's children; to want freedom and support wars that deny others their freedom. To feel outrage at being robbed and support wars that rob the people of other lands.
..The barbarism of the Iraq war is creating mass dissociation in Iraq and America. Iraqis are going out of their minds with suffering. So are their tormentors, the American soldiers who are themselves tormented by what they have seen and done.
Ordinary Americans must also dissociate in order to live "normal" lives while a horrific war looms menacingly in the background. Such dissociation provides temporary comfort, while allowing the war to continue.
The media encourage mass dissociation, presenting sanitized coverage of the war and sedating commentary that drips with lies. "Doublespeak" promotes dissociation to make the unacceptable acceptable. Invasion is defense; civilian deaths are collateral damage; a freedom fighter is a terrorist working for us; and a terrorist is a freedom fighter working for them.
Read on..
http://www.counterpunch.com/rosenthal07142007.html
Albatross @ 15:
This is not a legal document.
The Bill of Rights, Constitution Articles that grant rights, are legal documents.
I don't understand why they would kill journalists. I would think that the Iraqis would want the world to know what was happening to their country.
John P. Normanson @ 12:
Doesn't the boy Bush take the month of August off so that he can go to his ranch and cut brush?
Since the media industry has lost so many there why doesn't the stateside media jump in the middle of the bush cheney shit.
Like the congress, the domestic media has no balls at all.
Its a shame they send their people over there to be killed.
Its a shame bushco sends our troops there to be killed.
FOR WHAT. An august Vacation i guess.
So the remaining benchmarks that have not been met are political ones and the report is due in September. Well, will the last chapter read then that the "Unfortunately progress wasn't made due to the Iraqi politicians enjoying the vacation time over the course of the last month...??!!" The dems know what is cooking for September so I'd better call your representatives and ask them to make copies for all the interested parties, throw the impeachment on the table and f*****g glue it.
Just after the NYT ran a story last week about ending the occupation. It's not a war. There are no coincidences, I'd lay money he was targeted for payback. Shooter's a mean guy. IMPEACH
Bush sends his condolences but this guy was killed by the same guys who did 9/11 so it only strengthens his resolve. It's like Colbert said - he believes the same thing Wednesday he did Monday NO MATTER WHAT happened Tuesday.
Salmineo @ 18:
The Declaration of Independence may not be a legal document. But I wouldn't be surprised if Bush also regards the Declaration of Independence with much the same reverence and appreciation as he does the Constitution; it's just another goddamned piece of paper.
And the death of a young, brave, blameless Iraqi journalist is just the loss of a major league asshole from the Times.
My heart goes out to the family of Khalid W. Hassan, particularly his mother. What a horrible phone call to have received.
This screams as an attempt by the Pentagon to control the information that comes out of Iraq. Just like their successful attempt to eliminate unembedded journalists. Hopefully, more information comes out so I am proved wrong.
Bic @ 8:
If not NOW, when......?
L.A. Confidential @ 4:
Let's not kid ourselves. The Dance of Death would continue even if we were to pull out tomorrow. The tragedy (and stupidity) of Bush-the-Idiot is that he created a power vacuum when he invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam... but I guess like so many C students, he missed that particular history lesson... Dumb fuck!
this is more "progress" to Joementum and Huckleberry Graham
nonny mouse @ 25:
On one hand at least his mom knows what happened. I forget if it was here at C&L or elsewhere I read Iraqi's getting themselves tattooed for identification. Even that is taboo for many Christians. On the other, it reminds me of the story The Monkey's Paw.
Either outcome sucks. Guess that's a good example of tragedy as any.
Salmineo @ 18:
And your point is? Did I post someplace "Here's a legal document?" Or am I presenting for consideration the fact that the Founding Fathers revolted for reasons not far off of what the present President has provided? And yet the population does nothing...
If television had existed in 1776, we'd all be swearing allegiance to the Crown...
Albatross @ 31:
There's a self-evident joke here somewhere. It's butt has already spoken.
If the democrats in congress gave a flip about the Iraq issue they would cancel their own August vacations. They should cancel them and then demand the same from Bush and the Iraqis.
Sadly instead they will all be off vacationing with families, taking money and trips from lobbyist while our men and women sweat and die in that 130 degree weather.
Talk about a failure to feel the pain. I hope someone decent challenges every single member of congress Dem and Repug in the next election. None of them have earned another term.
so sad, he was just a kid.
this is so sad....
dammit. i thought my comment didn't go through. lol. sorry about the double post.
Another death thanks to our retard president.
Springfield, Ohio and Baldwin, Long Island have seen enough.
What is the use of hiring locals and giving them a paper badge and then chucking all the reporters notes into the trash can ?
I bet this young reporter stepped out of line and USA/Israel killed him--like the others.
Reporter's last notes read--No such thing as Al Qaidas--all bullsh!t....
If there are any Wiccans, Pagans, or other kinds of magicke workers reading this, why not have a group magicke-working session to deal with Bush? Has anyone tried it yet? A friend of mine helped me work a binding spell once against a trouble maker and it was remarkably effective. This might sound a bit strange to non-magicke folks, but at this point I'll try ANYTHING!!!
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