Now Maybe The Fools Will SFTU

E&P:

After spending 82 days in confinement, apparently without a single step outside, and with her life on the line every moment, reporter Jill Carroll was cut surprisingly little slack from certain quarters in the day following her sudden release by insurgents in Iraq.

At issue were a pair of video interviews, one shot by the militants just before her release, the other at an Iraqi political office just after she was set free but before she was back in American hands. In the latter, she simply stated that she had been treated well, all things considered, and had never been beaten. In the first, while still under control of her captors, she went further, praising the insurgency and asking President Bush to stop the war.
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Not surprisingly, an article in the Christian Science Monitor revealed later Friday that making the first video was a condition of her release and did not represent her beliefs.

Carroll's captors approached her the night before her release, saying "they had one final demand as the price of her freedom: She would have to make a video praising her captors and attacking the United States," the Monitor said. According to her father, Jim Carroll, "she felt compelled to make statements strongly critical of President Bush and his policy in Iraq."

In another interview he suggested that three machine guns had been trained on her.

(via the lovely, passionate and talented goddess, Athenae)

Hey, Howie!  You're a bigger putz than I thought.  Now how about doing something useful instead of questioning a brave young woman's intentions.  I've got an idea: why not look into the lies Bush told to get us into this war in the first place, or how he's assumed unconstitutional powers as he violates out civil liberties, or what about the rumors that he's back on the sauce and fucks goats?

ntodd