Bush Orders Secret War Against

[GostHacked]

To me it is the same as 'shooting the messenger'. ABC reports news. Any MSM reports news. The MSM should actually report more news, real news.

If the CIA or a government official leaked the information, then the CIA needs to check a few things internaly. Gone are the days of reporters granted immunity for reporting such material. This makes being a reporter an almost useless job. If they fear they are getting prosecuted (like the reporter who broke the Valerie Plame incident) they won't ever report any real news ever again for fear of their job and perhaps their life. Sucks eh? The end result is less real information gets to the public regarding THEIR government.

[M.Dancer]

Deliberate leak.....they certainly want Iran to know the clock is ticking....

[moderateamericain]

you have to be careful with what you censorship, If you censorship this whats next? I believe in the freedom of the press just so long as it doesnt cause the death of American Human Intelligence assets. If we give up up our right to free press how are we any better than terrorist? Theres a fine line that should be drawn in the sand.

[sharkman]

That may be true, but there are certain members of the press who have made it their calling to damage Bush any way they can, plain and simple. They hate him and everything he does. They will leak anything, and Bush's political enemies know this and use these members of the press.

When you have a situation such as this in the media, what do you do? This strategy of war by other means against an enemy of the U.S. (Iran) should have been kept secret. I hold the position that the Bush Admin. didn't leak it as it gives Iran a heads up. It was leaked by yutzes in the media who got it from Dems and it heavily reduced any benefits that might have been achieved. Aiding the enemy because you don't like the president's politics!

[ScottSA]

Freedom of the press is usually suspended during wartime...certainly during total war. It should be too. The governments of mature democracies don't, for the most part, set out to make life as miserable as possible for its citizens. Whatever one might think of Bush, most reasonable people recognize that the "OiliburtonBushbeelzebub" rant is more for public consumption than to convey any real meaning, and that whatever his actions, his intentions are to do the best he can to protect the American people and their way of life. The press, on the other hand, has taken this alleged "freedom" and run with it. It has divorced freedom from the chains of any moral or patriotic code and refuses to even recognize the very nation it depends upon for its freedom as the good guys.

In WW II, there was a great deal more censorship, but for the most part the press establishment understood the need for self censorship. Had they not, had they behaved like the spoiled counterculturists of the Vietnam era or today, they would have been censored. And it would have been justified. No one is stealing anyone's freedom by not keeping the enemy apprised of our movements.

[Spamma]

Although I am only a teen, I wrote this topic myself:

The War in Iran

I sincerely hope you will take time to read it. It is based on this.