Doug Schmitz argues that CNN officials should be forced to testify against Saddam Hussein. In 2003, Eason Jordan, then CNN’s chief news executive, admitted covering up the Iraqi dictator’s atrocities in order to keep the Baghdad bureau open and not jeopardize the lives of staff.
While Jordan was overseeing his treasonous deal with Saddam Hussein for more than a decade, Jordan and his staff knew Hussein and his sons were raping women; imprisoning children; throwing blind-folded men off tall buildings; cutting out tongues; slicing off fingers, hands and arms; gouging out eyes; grinding up naked bodies in plastic shredders; and filling ten of thousands of mass graves with the decapitated remains. Yet, Jordan and his spineless staff chose to turn a deaf ear to these innocent Iraqis’ cries for help. Instead of telling the truth, CNN chose treason, which now must be entered into the war crimes annuals in the new Iraqi court system for their case against Hussein and his torturous regime. What CNN tried to keep silent for 12 years must now be made a large part of the record as the blood of millions of Hussein’s innocent victims continually cries out for justice.
