U.S. State Dept. slams media coverage of Saddam trial

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=e28dbb600247514c

The U.S. State Department Thursday criticized media coverage of Saddam Hussein's trial in Iraq, saying his courtroom outbursts are getting more coverage than the testimony of his victims.

Officials reiterated that Saddam Hussein's complaints of mistreatment by U.S. jailers are "bogus."

Officials at the State Department rarely engage in media criticism. But they are making clear their frustration over the latest coverage of the Saddam trial, which they say has focused on the Iraqi leader's courtroom "grand-standing" rather than the compelling testimony about human rights abuses by his regime.
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Its not going the way they planned HA HA HA!!!

[Erika]

1. We no longer have a State Department

It is a Bush Propoganda Department. They should be honest and declare that.

[saigon68]

21. We have KindaSleezy Rice in Charge at the ASYLUM

Her beautiful face out in front of the Garbage

[Faux pas]

2. I keep wondering how such a good friend of Raygun's and

Poppy's turned into a criminal under jr's watch. What am I missing?

[EFerrari]

11. Welcome to DU, Faux pas

:hi:

[Faux pas]

17. Thanks sfexpat2000! Good to be here. n/t

[thebigidea]

3. waaah! They won't give us enough free propaganda to make us look good!

as if the Bushies haven't gotten years of free PR by the liberal media.

[neuvocat]

4. And by "slams" they apparently mean "whining".

I don't know anyone-including myself-who's even bothering to watch any of it to begin with.

[NYC Liberal]

5. Whatamatter? Are they worried people will find out how

the top guys in Shrub's administration were great buddies with Saddam in the '80s?

[rpannier]

6. I don't know about how they show it in America

But CNN-Asia shows the trial live every day it's happening.

[nickine9]

8. I dont think it is actually live...

i heard a BBC correspondent (john simpson i think) say that there is a 30 minute delay to allow the excision of any embarrassing incidents. he was talking about what is being broadcast in iraq and i have no idea how altered the final broadcast is.

[leftchick]

10. cnn in the US cuts his mic

every time he rants.

[Oversea Visitor]

7. But it is a circus

And what do clowns do.
They entertain.
Now Hague will make all this serious stuff.
Right now all you got is a lose lose scenario

[HuffleClaw]

9. waaaaah

yer ignoring our propaganda! they do protest too much. and who are we more likely to believe? the guy who did what he was asked to under duress and was still invaded? or the guy who lied about going to war?

[EFerrari]

12. What can Saddam be charge with that Bush cannot be charged with?

The misState Department is in a real pickle, isn't it? :)

[Tiggeroshii]

20. intentional mass genocide of a phenomenal amount of your own Kurdish

population and the jailing and executions of any potential ooposition party leaders. Fortunately we still have an opposition party, but as much as I don't lke him and as much as what he's done that is illegal he is still not close to as heartless and ruthless as Saddam was.

[EFerrari]

22. But, Bush has used napalm on Iraqi civilians

and the Lancet puts the death toll at 100,000 dead.

The difference between Bush and Saddam is Bush's pr team. Same rape rooms, torture, political prisonors, fake elections, and cronyism but with better spin.

Let's not kid ourselves. :(

[Demeter]

25. While We Lost New Orleans, parts of Florida, Mississippi, etc

Our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the budget surplus, and any semblance of world respect.

[DemonFighterLives]

13. Officials Say!

Doesn't anyone have a name anymore. How does this shadow speaker know if Saddam was mistreated or not? I suppose he asked the jailer.
This trial would be much better served if Saddam was turned over to the World Court.

[pinerow]

14. What coverage....!!!!

nt

[JudyM]

15. Kind of like how the MSM covered * before the 04 election

They just played over and over his same stupid lines without giving adequate balanced airtime to Kerry's soundbytes.

[msongs]

16. the military can just BUY air and paper time for its version nt

[saigon68]

24. US Military War Crimes

stray dogs feeding on human corpses




A stray dog feeds on an Iraqi corpse. Marines are now hunting down stray animals grown fat on the flesh from corpses and which could harbor rabies Photo AFP/Cris Bouroncle.

[janx]

18. "rarely engage in media criticism"

:rofl:

[Tempest]

19. Why don't they just pay the Iraq media to run "good news" stories?

It's not like they haven't gotten caught doing it before.

[Doctor_J]

23. Hasn't Mrs. Bush got enough to worry about

what with Iraq a quagmire, arrest warrants issued in Italy for our agents, India getting ready to sever ties, and Iran, N Korea going ahead with nukes?

WTF is wrong with every fucking person in the Rove admin?