Freedom of the Press?

One really has to wonder if the Bush administration policy in Iraq of shooting journalists whose stories they don't like is actually some sort of evil projection of how the Bush administration would like to treat journalists they don't like in the US (if they could get away with doing it here).

This policy is very much like how the Bush administration treats prisoners in their misbegotten war on terror. They treat prisoners from this war in the US with contempt for the law (i.e. Jose Padilla), but with some modicum of humanity. But when they take prisoners somewhere outside the US, such as Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, they mistreat the life out of these poor people. Basically, these people will stretch the law as far as possible, and outside the US, we can see their true nature at work.

The Bush administration philosophy seems very much to be: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Fuck-- why aren't so-called journalists in this country up in arms about this????