Remember the Brit cameraman captured by terrorist militia in Iraq? Richard Butler who was kidnapped Feb. 10th, 2008 was interviewed on CBS Evening News and he made this comment:

PIZZEY: You took a lot of pictures in Afghanistan of people in the situation you were in, people hooded, their eyes taped, their hands tied up, kept in small cages. You must have had a lot of empathy from your situation with what you saw. Did you remember all that stuff?

BUTLER: Yes, I did it is quite ironic. I was very pleased that I wasn’t being kept in such harsh conditions that they were kept because I have seen them be put in stress positions for every waking hour, and at least they weren’t doing that to me. I had loose handcuffs, whereas they had plastic tie wraps that were very tight, and they were also taped round their mouth the whole time and hooded.

So yes, I was relieved that my captivity wasn’t as harsh as I have witnessed being applied to suspects taken from Afghanistan.

PIZZEY: You were saying it is better to be kidnapped by Shi’ites in southern Iraq than by Americans in Afghanistan.

BUTLER: I was pleased I wasn’t being waterboarded in Guantanamo or being held for six and a half years like an al Jazeera cameraman, for instance.

The full transcript is available at CBSNews.com: www.cbsnews.com

I’m sure this guy had no bias in his camera work. Guess he fits right into CBS’s anti-American agenda.

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