As highlighted in the article, this could prove to be a

very important decision regarding reporters in a war zone.

That your American citizenship, - naturalized - dual - or

just ordinary citizenship, would not guarantee you access

to our justice system - even when it's OUR war?

Because, now - more than ever - it matters whom you know?

We threw our weight around plenty when it was American

contractors - and they got their immunity. But these guys

aren't sympathetic figures - won't stir up a lot of protest

here at home.......be real - they are of Arab descent - so

it's okay to deny their rights and Iraqi justice will just have to be good enough?

Ante said "they are of Arab descent - so

it's okay to deny their rights and Iraqi justice will just have to be good enough?"

Ante is right. Arab americans are way down the ladder right now. They're not as american as Irish americans or Norweigen americans or british americans or scottish americans. I wonder if they are as american as Japanese americans?

Nothing makes my heart pump patriotism more than these

lyrics - because they are what I believed we stood for -

we need to make that present tense more than ever:

Because All Men Are Brothers

Because all men are brothers wherever men may be

One Union shall unite us forever proud and free

No tyrant shall defeat us, no nation strike us down

All men who toil shall greet us the whole wide world around.

My brothers are all others forever hand in hand

Where chimes the bell of freedom there is my native land

My brother's fears are my fears yellow white or brown

My brother's tears are my tears the whole wide world around.

Let every voice be thunder, let every heart beat strong

Until all tyrants perish our work shall not be done

Let not our memories fail us the lost year shall be found

Let slavery's chains be broken the whole wide world around.

- Bach/Glazer

The Bush Administration once again makes a mockery of all of the men and women who have given their lives to defend the rights of U.S. Citizens.

An administration that actively fights AGAINST the rights of an American Citizen is truly despicable.

This Administration has repeatedly rendered the Legislative Branch impotent in their unrelenting expansion of 'Executive Privilege'. Clearly they hope to do the same with the Judicial Branch as well.

grid,

As usual, you're way off your coordinates. You don't know what the hell your flapping your gums about.

First, ANY news organization - foreign or domestic - working in Iraq is sanctioned by this government through a de facto cooperation between the Iraqi government and the coalition forces command. They provide visas, or its equivalent, for their work.

Secondly, ANY American citizen under these circumstances has the right of due process - it's the law for anyone, not just flag-waving idiots like yourself - something for which every fallen American soldier has fought for AND no President can take that away.