CBS' Rather Lands Saddam Interview (Ramsy Clark put in a good word. Really)

Highmark Funds ^ | Feb. 24, 2003 | DAVID BAUDER

[EERinOK]

So does this make it official?

Dan Rather: Mother of all Tools!

[L.N. Smithee]

Rather did not anticipate any criticism from supporters of a potential war with Iraq who might be upset that he's talking with the nation's potential enemy.

"I'm a reporter," he said. "What reporters do is try to talk to everybody on all sides of the story. I don't know any journalist who wouldn't take this interview. If you do, have them call me, collect."

I am thinking of the interview Rather did with Clinton as his final year in office began, and also that ambush attempt at George H.W. Bush during the 1992 campaign.

Gee, I wonder which of those two "big get" interviews more closely resembles his sit down with Saddam.

[boxerblues]

Saddam refuses to destroy missiles....by Niko Price AP BAGHDAD, Iraq (Feb. 25) - Saddam Hussein indicated on Monday that he does not intend to follow U.N. orders to destroy his Al-Samoud 2 missiles, and challenged President Bush to an internationally televised debate via satellite linkup. In a three-hour interview with CBS anchor Dan Rather, the Iraqi leader said he envisioned a live debate with Bush along the lines of those in a U.S. presidential campaign, according to the network. The White House dismissed the debate offer as meaningless.

[oceanperch]

Lift up your suffering to the Lord.

It really makes the suffering more tolerable.

We have been doing it for 24yrs now.

It makes perservearing bearable on the darkest days.

[oceanperch]

lol