The New York Times’ Double Standards
When the news broke late last week that U.S. forces in Iraq had freed 42 captives, including a 14 year old boy, from an Al Queda prison where many were tortured using the gruesome methods described in the captured Al Queda torture manual many newspapers around the country ran the story.
A simple search on the headline “U.S. frees 42 Iraqi captives in raid” links to just about every major news organization. But not the New York Times. . . .
When the story was American abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq the New York Times ran front page stories 43 out of 47 days in a row.
What’s more, and as anyone who has gotten a look at that torture manual which was found, the torture engaged in by al Qaeda was several orders of magnitude greater than anything that was done at Abu Ghraib. Sure the inmates at Abu Ghraib were hurt and humiliated, and there is no excuse for what that handful of soldiers did, but they didn’t do what the terrorists are doing. There’s no comparison.
But this is how the liberals view these issues. We’re the real problem in the middle east, not al Qaeda.
