Iran, MSM, and Violating Geneva Convention
I’m still waiting for both the international outrage and extensive coverage by the MSM of the blatant violation of Geneva Conventions by Iran. I was willing to chalk up last week’s coverage as a function of it the news still being recent but at this point I think there has been enough time.
Allegations of Geneva Convention violation by the US gets significantly more coverage than actual violation of said conventions by our avowed enemy. What sides is the MSM on?
I was listening to this satirist Evan Sayet this weekend on the Dennis Miller Show and he mentioned that the New York Times had the Abu Ghraib story as a front page story for 44 days in a row. F O R T Y - F O U R days. Hey, that scandal was huge and needed to be covered extensively, but front page for 44 days. It’s hard for me to hear this and not think that the editors at the New York Times was trying to make a point about America’s decision to go to war with Iraq or at the very least, take comfort in the fact that the US military made a huge mistake and enjoyed being able to throw it America’s face. In any event one can’t help but think the New York Time wants the US to fail when you hear about these things.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:11 am
where can i get some solid info on this iran hostage thing? All i’ve heard so far is that we captured a bunch of iranian agents in iraq, and they have 15 british soldiers. Are there any other details? Also, why is it ok for iran to capture british soldiers when they “aren’t at war with us”?
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:49 am
I found this useful if not depressing.
April 3rd, 2007 at 6:40 am
Man you keep doing that- how is forcing the US government to follow the Geneva Conventions and not torture people ‘making the US fail’? I care way more about human rights and honoring the law than I do about whatever we’re supposed to have gained by circumventing those things; to me, holding our government responsible toit’s own laws and to the public’s sense of morality is the US succeeding.
For a dude who’s so paranoid about the US government turning on it’s citizens that he thinks we should all be stockpiling AK-47’s in prepreration for the uprising, you’ve alwasy struck me as remarkably nonchalant about the US government violating human rights and international law.
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:53 am
F O R T Y
F O U R
D A Y S
October 26th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
[…] it’s not like the liberals at the NYTimes hasn’t tried. They only had the Abu Ghraib story on their front page for 44 days in a […]
October 27th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Which Geneva convention in particular are you claiming the Iranians violated?
November 17th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
“blatant violation of Geneva Conventions by Iran”
Still waiting for you to back this up. Hint: show that the captured sailors are actually being tortured and you have an argument.