Word: cbs
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...have seen enough pictures of it to know the power of images. They know that the best way to prevent something that has already happened is to make sure no one sees it. That’s how you get a policy against photographing caskets, and a military begging CBS not to air its photographs of prisoner abuse. If people see these things, the victims will be disaggregated from numbers back into people, and America could have second thoughts about having chosen this...
...Days before the first photographs of detainee abuse appeared on CBS, a CNN/USA Today Gallup poll found that 60 percent of Iraqis now want U.S. troops to go home immediately, even though they acknowledge that their departure might bring further instability. Those numbers captured a decisive swing away from the U.S. in the mood of Iraqis over the year since Saddam Hussein's regime fell. And that survey was taken before U.S. actions against insurgents at Fallujah and in Baghdad sparked widespread condemnation among even pro-U.S. Iraqis. It's a safe bet that in the wake...
...shared a deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated. Their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, reacting to photographs broadcast on CBS's 60 Minutes II TV program depicting Iraqi prisoners being abused and humiliated by U.S. soldiers...
...torture that Saddam's thugs used.The Americans promised us that things would be different than they were under Saddam. They lied." HASSAN SAEED, 27-year-old Iraqi, reacting to one of the images, which showed a hooded man standing on a box with wires attached to his hands. CBS reported that the prisoner was told he would be electrocuted if he fell...
...Prurient, crass and insensitive." CHESTER STERN, spokesman for Mohammed Fayed, on CBS's decision to broadcast photographs from the car crash that killed Princess Diana and Fayed's son Dodi...