Posted on 12/06/2002 2:31:47 AM PST by Republican_Strategist
Is the *liberal media* giving aid and comfort to Saddam?
CyberAlert Wednesday August 21, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 129) - 1) O’ Canada, let us follow thee. ABC’s Peter Jennings seemed to speak for himself as he announced as a fact: “Some people are asking today whether or not the White House is losing control of the debate about war with Iraq.” Terry Moran then trumpeted how Canada has given a “sharp rebuke” to U.S. policy before treating Scott Ritter, who has been defending Saddam Hussein for years, as fresh news: “Opposition is mounting at home, too” as Ritter “said the administration had failed to make the case for war.”
CyberAlert Wednesday August 28, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 132) - 2) The New York Times built a Friday story around how the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had divulged a major policy change as he declared that removing Saddam Hussein from power was not "an object of British foreign policy." But in a Tuesday correction, the paper admitted its story was fallacious: “The assessment that removing Saddam Hussein is 'not an object of British foreign policy' was made by a BBC interviewer, not by Mr. Straw."
CyberAlert Wednesday September 4, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 134) - 1) After the holiday weekend, on Tuesday night Peter Jennings resumed his campaign against going to war with Iraq. He opened the show with a poll showing that “public support for attacking Iraq has dropped sharply in recent weeks,” featured a soundbite from Iraq’s Tariq Aziz, highlighting how Aziz “accused the Bush administration of what he called 'warmongering,'" and even blamed Bush’s Iraq policy for the stock market’s dive: “The prospect of war with Iraq caused anxiety on Wall Street today.” CBS and NBC faulted bad manufacturing numbers.
CyberAlert Thursday September 5, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 135) - 1) Peter Jennings blamed the Bush administration's advocacy of war for its predicament: "This business of attacking Iraq has been promoted so vigorously by some members of his administration, and running into such opposition, the President is now obliged to work harder at convincing people at what he wants is the right thing." NBC's Lisa Myers highlighted how both GOP "moderate" Senator Susan Collins and "conservative" Senator Thad Cochran oppose Bush's policy. And CBS characterized John McCain as opposed to Bush's policy, while ABC and NBC listed him as a backer.
2) Ariel Sharon as dangerous as Saddam Hussein? Helen Thomas harangued White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer on Wednesday afternoon about whether President Bush had presented congressional leaders with any evidence that Iraq is on "the verge" of having nuclear weapons, "or any other thing that would really be different than what Israel has today?"
3) Three weeks after their mis-reporting of Henry Kissinger as amongst Republicans opposed to going to war against Iraq, in an "Editor's Note" on Wednesday the New York Times finally admitted that one of their stories "listed Mr. Kissinger incorrectly among Republicans who were warning outright against a war." The note, however, falsely insisted that Kissinger "most centrally" said in his op-ed piece "that removing Mr. Hussein from power -- Mr. Bush's justification for war -- was not an appropriate goal."
4) New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines claimed those who say his paper is biased against Bush's Iraq policy are making the accusations "for ideological reasons." He charged on the PBS NewsHour: "When you look at what the conservative columnists are saying, they're expressing a perception of opinion, and they're the best witness on it." Raines sees everything through a Vietnam prism: "I'm hearing a lot of echoes of the early '60s, when people were saying it was unpatriotic to report the debate over Vietnam."
CyberAlert Friday September 6, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 136) - 2) A bit of a snide tone from CNN's Aaron Brown. On Tuesday night's NewsNight, noting new administration efforts to make its case about the danger posed by Saddam Hussein, Brown contrasted fear with reason: "Clearly, the administration has decided it cannot rely on post-9/11 fear or fervor to win the day. Facts and arguments still count."
3) First the New York Times distorted what Henry Kissinger wrote about Iraq in a Washington Post op-ed. Now, the Washington Post has misrepresented what James Baker contended in a New York Times op-ed. Post reporter Karen DeYoung stated that Baker "advised against invasion." In fact, Baker argued: "The only realistic way to effect regime change in Iraq is through the application of military force."
4) In an appearance Thursday morning on FNC's Fox & Friends, Henry Kissinger confirmed that he believed that the New York Times misrepresented him in aligning him with opponents of preemptive action against Saddam Hussein: "I believe that preemption is sort of built into the nature of the terrorist threat."
CyberAlert Monday September 9, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 137) - 3) For many weeks top Democrats have been demanding that President Bush get congressional approval in advance for any action against Iraq, but without pointing out Democratic hypocrisy, on Friday night NBC's Campbell Brown reported: "Democrats are beginning to question why the President is in such a hurry to get Congress's approval for a military strike, suggesting he wants to make Iraq an issue in the November elections."
4) On Friday's Inside Politics, CNN's Judy Woodruff raised with Senator Hillary Clinton how her husband "said it was Osama bin Laden who killed 3,000 Americans, not Saddam Hussein, and we should be going after bin Laden." But instead of asking about the hypocrisy of Bill Clinton and other leading liberal Democrats who were advocating action against Hussein just four years ago, statements laid out in a new Weekly Standard story, Woodruff simply prompted Senator Clinton: "Do you agree with him?"
CyberAlert Tuesday September 10, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 138) - 1) On Monday's NBC Nightly News, Ron Allen in Iraq trumpeted Scott Ritter's credentials: "Today Iraq got more ammunition from an unlikely American ally -- former U.N. weapons inspector and U.S. marine Scott Ritter, leading his own tour to an Iraqi military camp, a base where the U.S. believes Iraq has trained terrorists. But Ritter...claims it's a base for hostage rescue training." FNC's Brit Hume showed how Ritter has done a 180 since 1998 and in the morning, CBS's Jane Clayson at least challenged Ritter when he claimed that Hussein has no interest in acquiring nuclear weapons.
2) Charlie Gibson's Magic Kingdom. The co-host of ABC's Good Morning America kept pressing Defense Secretary Rumsfeld on Monday to provide evidence of Iraq's weapons, leading to this question: "So if inspectors went in tomorrow and somehow found all of his weapons development programs and were able to magically make them go away, that wouldn't be enough?" Rumsfeld retorted: "I don't know why a hypothetical question like that's terribly useful, because it isn't going to happen."
CyberAlert Thursday September 12, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 139) - 5) A CBS reporter too biased for Dan Rather? After Mark Phillips in Baghdad referred to “the belligerent noises being made in Washington” toward Iraq, Rather gently reprimanded him, reminding him of how Mark Twain “said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between fire and firefly.” Rather suggested that instead of “belligerence,” that “Washington sees it as a kind of quiet determination.”
CyberAlert Friday September 13, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 140) - 1) Just before President Bush addressed the United Nations on Thursday morning about Iraq, ABC’s Peter Jennings referred to how “the sound of war drums being beaten in Washington has become unmistakable” and described the administration’s concern about Saddam Hussein’s weapons as a “preoccupation,” as if there were something misplaced about the worry.
2) Peter Jennings disappointed by the lack of Democratic opposition to Bush’s Iraq policy? On World News Tonight he asked George Stephanopoulos to confirm that “the President's critics in Congress appear to have folded" before wistfully pleading: "Is there any anti-war constituency in Congress anymore?"
3) While NBC’s David Gregory characterized President Bush’s speech on Iraq at the UN in courtroom terms, describing it as “the President as prosecutor, the world his jury and Saddam Hussein the accused,” ABC’s Terry Moran insisted “the speech was more of an argument rather than a strict presentation of evidence.”
CyberAlert Monday September 16, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 141) - 1) The new gimmick on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos: Having someone outside of Washington, DC pose a liberal question. On Sunday's inaugural broadcast that opportunity went to a Lexington, Kentucky newspaper editor who told Condoleezza Rice that “four ordinary” readers came to her office and asked: “How we can stop the President from forcing us into Iraq?” The editor wanted to know: “What should I tell them?” How about it's improper for a journalist to offer political strategy?
CyberAlert Wednesday September 18, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 143) - 1) Iraq put conditions on the access of weapons inspectors, but despite that ABC’s Peter Jennings declared that Iraq had decided “to allow the weapons inspectors in without conditions.” Both NBC and FNC noted the inaccuracy of that claim while all three broadcast evening shows recalled Iraq’s duplicity in frustrating weapons inspectors in the past.
2) Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News featured a story from Ron Allen in Baghdad about Iraqi public opinion, as if people in an oppressive dictatorial society have the option of disagreeing with the official line. Allen relayed: “Many Iraqis believe America's true motive is to remove Saddam Hussein from power, install a puppet government and seize Iraq's vast oil wealth.”
3) Peter Jennings celebrated the 215th birthday of the Constitution by highlighting how some history professors complained that the failure of Congress to vote on whether to declare war on Iraq “has left the President solely in control of war powers to the detriment of democracy and in clear violation of the Constitution.” NBC’s Katie Couric raised the same issue on Today with Second Lady Lynne Cheney.
CyberAlert Thursday September 19, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 144) - 2) Saddam Hussein sure fooled President Bush by inviting in arms inspectors, CNN’s Aaron Brown suggested Tuesday night as he analogized Bush to the cartoon character “Wile E. Coyote” realizing he’s standing only on air while the Road Runner, Hussein, managed to stop at the edge of the cliff.
CyberAlert Friday September 20, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 145) - 1) To Peter Jennings, President Bush asking Congress to approve of using force against Iraq and saying, “very forcefully,” that if the UN doesn’t go along the U.S. will act on its own means, Jennings rued, that “what we appear to have here is an administration powerful enough to have its own way.”
2) Congress will pass the Iraqi resolution, ABC and NBC predicted, but ABC’s Linda Douglass focused on how “skepticism about a war in both parties runs deep.” She focused on questions posed to Donald Rumsfeld by Ted Kennedy and two un-conservative Republicans. NBC’s Lisa Myers showed both those concerned as well as how top Democrats Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt were positive, though she found bi-partisan angst by showcasing a liberal Republican.
CyberAlert Tuesday September 24, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 147) - 1) ABC, CBS and NBC all ran short items Monday night on Al Gore’s speech denouncing President Bush’s policy toward Iraq, but CBS’s Dan Rather tried to make Gore seem more credible: “Gore has always supported overthrowing Saddam and was among the few Senate Democrats who voted for the 1991 Gulf War resolution. After that war, Gore said he felt betrayed by the first President Bush’s, quote, 'hasty withdrawal from the battlefield.’”
CyberAlert Friday September 27, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 149) - 2) While CBS’s Dan Rather highlighted how Al Gore charged that he felt “betrayed by the first Bush administration's hasty departure from the battlefield” in Iraq which left Saddam Hussein in power, FNC’s Brit Hume noted how back in 1991 Gore had said the opposite. CNBC’s Brian Williams reminded viewers of how Gore was “the number one popular vote-getter in the last election” and ABC’s Claire Shipman emphasized how Gore “noted proudly yesterday that he cast the deciding the vote” for the Persian Gulf War. No he didn’t.
CyberAlert Monday September 30, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 150) - 1) George Stephanopoulos showed on Sunday that he’s more upset by anyone daring to criticize liberal Democrats than he is by what those liberals said in the first place, no matter how outrageous. When Senator Don Nickles observed of two Democratic Congressmen in Baghdad, one of whom had just claimed Bush would lie in order to justify a war, “both sound somewhat like spokespersons for the Iraqi government,” Stephanopoulos pounced on him for a “pretty harsh charge.” Stephanopoulos also chided George W. Bush for “basically accusing” Democrats “of treason.”
3) ABC discovered scandalous behavior by President Bush: When he’s out campaigning he’s talking about the biggest and most important policy decision of the day. “Serious questions are being raised about whether Mr. Bush, with all of his travels for money, may be politicizing the prospect of war,” Claire Shipman intoned on Friday’s World News Tonight. Friday’s Good Morning America featured a similar piece. Peter Jennings highlighted a left-wing protest march in Denver, giving publicity to how the marchers chanted “No blood for oil” and “No war for votes.”
4) On Friday’s NBC Nightly News, Campbell Brown relayed Democratic criticism of President Bush for daring to recall that Saddam Hussein tried to have his father assassinated and then gave the criticism credibility: “That after White House officials have repeatedly insisted the President’s campaign isn’t personal.”
CyberAlert Tuesday October 1, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 151) - 2) The text of Barbra Streisand’s memo to Dick “Gebhardt” in which she urged Democrats to “go on the offense” against President Bush. A Streisand aide argued that industries “run by big Republican donors and insiders clearly have much to gain if we go to war against Iraq.”
4) President Bush will attack Iraq just because he wants to “change the subject from Cheney and Halliburton and the crumbling confidence in the stock market,” actor Tim Robbins told the Washington Post. Robbins claimed he resents Bush putting “American soldiers in harm's way and to do everything to change the subject so that Republicans can keep control of the House."
5) Some concern for Saddam Hussein expressed by director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Cruise. But do they back Bush?
CyberAlert Wednesday October 2, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 152) - 1) Remarkably, Peter Jennings was ignorant of how Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott said President Bush would “lie” in order to justify a war against Iraq, a charge he re-confirmed Sunday on ABC’s This Week. Asked about it on Tuesday by radio host Sean Hannity, Jennings maintained: “I didn’t hear that, to be honest.”
2) David Bonior, R-Michigan? When CBS’s The Early Show on Monday ran a clip from ABC’s This Week of liberal Democratic Congressman David Bonior ranting against U.S. policy, the on-screen graphic read: “Rep. DAVID BONIOR R-MICHIGAN.”
3) With “maverick” Senator John McCain agreeing with President Bush on Iraq the networks have found him less newsworthy, but CNN deserves credit for asking McCain about the anti-U.S. rants of liberal Democrats Bonior and McDermott and then showing how he castigated them: “These are members of Congress. These are supposed to be grown mature individuals. I do not understand it."
4) Walter Cronkite has made common cause with those on the left, including Mario Cuomo, who are using the stalling tactic of demanding the Bush administration answer “questions,” in order to prevent a war with Iraq. Cronkite signed his name to a full page ad in Tuesday’s New York Times taken out by Common Cause.
7) Add actor Richard Dreyfuss to the list of celebrities opposed to Bush’s Iraq policy. He declared on FNC’s Fox & Friends: “I think that the lack of clarity in this country about why we're going to send young men to die and kill people is enormous.” He praised Barbra Streisand and Al Gore for speaking out, criticized conservatives for giving Bush “power that simply doesn't exist in the Constitution,” and yearned for European reasoning.
8) Streisand Update. Matt Drudge disclosed that Shakespeare never penned the words quoted by Barbra Streisand to rally opposition to Bush’s Iraq policy and FNC’s Brit Hume played a clip of Streisand singing her modified lyrics: “As long as Democrats were the majority/I could sleep nights/Not weep nights.”
CyberAlert Thursday October 3, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 153) - 2) Another round of incoherent left-wing rantings by Helen Thomas at the White House press briefing on Wednesday. She demanded: “Why is a family grudge included in the official paper that states our position on war and peace?” Then she painted the U.S. as the killer: “Does that justify killing thousands of people in Iraq?” and “Are you going to kill all these people to get democracy?”
CyberAlert Friday October 4, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 154) - 1) CBS News veteran foreign correspondent Bob Simon declared his opposition to war with Iraq: “I don't think that going to war with him is the right thing to do right now.” Simon contended to USA Today’s Peter Johnson that most Arabs see an invasion as “arrogant American imperialism which will just sow the seeds for more terrorism.”
2) Hours after the MRC published a study showing how ABC’s World News Tonight spent September downplaying Iraq’s obfuscation, the show aired a piece devoted to a subject explored earlier by other networks, how Saddam Hussein won’t let inspectors check his palaces where it is believed he is conducting weapons development.
CyberAlert Wednesday October 9, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 157) - 1) ABC, CBS and NBC decided not to interrupt prime time in the east on Monday night to carry President Bush’s speech outlining the reasons behind his Iraq policy. On Tuesday night, only the CBS Evening News ran excerpts while the NBC Nightly News ignored the speech completely. But ABC did worse than not inform viewers of what Bush said. World News Tonight tried to discredit Bush’s rationale by quibbling over a few of his claims as ABC ran a “Reality Check” undermining Bush’s “hard to verify” assertions.
CyberAlert Friday October 11, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 159) - 1) Cuba has “very high literacy” and “you have brought great health to your country,” Barbara Walters effused to Fidel Castro in a preview on Thursday’s World News Tonight of her interview with the dictator set to air on 20/20 tonight. Walters also treated Castro’s view of Bush’s Iraq policy as relevant. Walters sought confirmation: “You oppose an attack against Iraq, yes?”
2) Asked if he wished ABC had covered Bush’s Iraq speech live in prime time, on Wednesday’s Daily Show on Comedy Central Peter Jennings replied: “Not particularly.” He noted that entertainment show ratings play a role and he echoed the views of opponents of Bush’s Iraq policy, insisting the public is “very anxious....I think they're still uncertain about what it is the President's goals are, what will we do on day three?” As for liberal bias, Jennings maintained that “when I started in this racket, to go off and save the world and tell the truth was a liberal instinct.”
CyberAlert Tuesday October 15, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 161) - 1) ABC’s World News Tonight devoted a story Monday night to proving how, as Peter Jennings put it, “there are growing concerns” across the country about Bush’s plans for Iraq. ABC highlighted the opposition of nine people. Bill Redeker painted opponents as sharing Bush’s concern, but just differing on the remedy, as he insisted they are “not so much against getting rid of Saddam Hussein but how, when and at what cost.” But at that moment ABC was showing video of some very much out of the mainstream protesters carrying signs proclaiming things such as, “No Blood for Oil” and “Bombing = Terrorism.”
2) A plug for American Morning with Paula Zahn on CNN’s Web site promised a look at how “Iraqi citizens are preparing to go to the polls to decide whether Hussein stays in office.” The story which actually aired acknowledged that he’s the only name on the ballot, but fill-in host Carol Costello nonetheless stressed how in the days before the big vote “the mood on the street” in Iraq “is more festive than afraid.” Reporter Nic Robertson passed along how “students at Baghdad's fine arts school, too young to vote in the last referendum in 1995, appear eager now.”
3) Blame President Bush’s “hardline policy” on Iraq for the al Qaeda terrorist incidents in Kuwait and Yemen, CBS Sunday Morning anchor Charles Osgood asserted in adding an extra anti-Bush flair to a New York Times story which didn’t include the pejorative: “The group's latest round of attacks may be a response to the Bush administration's Iraq policy.”
CyberAlert Thursday October 17, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 162) - 1) How Peter Jennings measures stock market performance: When it falls he blames Bush’s policy against Iraq. When it rises he worries about the future impact of the Bush’s policy against Iraq. On September 3: “The prospect of war with Iraq caused anxiety on Wall Street today.” This week, after the market rebounded strongly: “How worried do investors appear to be about the possibility of war with Iraq?”
2) Journalists from major outlets decided to take the Iraqi “election” seriously and used it as a chance to highlight “genuine” celebrations by Iraqi citizens. ABC’s David Wright recalled how Hussein got 99.96 percent of the vote in the last referendum, but then incredibly claimed “it is impossible to say whether that's a true measure of the Iraqi people's feelings.” On Today Soledad O'Brien heralded how Hussein had “won” another term and NBC’s Keith Miller treated the charade seriously: “It's official yet still unbelievable! Saddam Hussein re-elected to another seven-year term as President in a referendum where he got 100 percent of the vote! The celebrations were genuine....”
3) On Tuesday night FNC’s Brit Hume reported on how "the Media Research Center, which keeps statistics on who reports what in broadcast news, found a general bias in favor of Democrats and opponents of an Iraq war resolution in Congress.”
CyberAlert Friday October 18, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 163) - 1) In looking at North Korea’s revelation that it is pursuing nuclear weapons, the networks ignored how the deal the communists violated was arranged by Jimmy Carter, a role which contributed to his earning the Nobel Peace Prize last week as FNC’s Brit Hume noted. ABC’s Peter Jennings demanded to know: “Why, for instance, is the Bush administration not threatening war against North Korea as it is doing almost daily with Iraq?”
3) Why the glowing reports on the pro-Hussein referendum? In a New Republic piece, “How Saddam Manipulates the U.S. Media,” Franklin Foer detailed how journalists are afraid of losing access: “To stay on the right side of the regime, many reporters on the Baghdad beat take the path of least resistance: They mimic the Baath Party line.” Everyone knows pro-Hussein marches are “a sham,” a journalist told Foer, “'But CNN in Atlanta is telling Nic Robertson that he has to file a story. He doesn't have anything else to work with. So he shows the demonstration.’" Plus, a new MRC Media Reality Check on Iraqi “election” coverage.
CyberAlert Monday October 21, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 164) - 1) Cheap shot of the weekend. NPR reporter Nina Totenberg on the revelation North Korea has nuclear weapons: “Well, maybe this shows that one ought not pick ones targets based, at least in part, on who tried to kill one’s dad.”
6) Add actor Sean Penn to the list of celebrities angry at President Bush’s policy toward Iraq. He spent $56,000 to buy an ad in Friday’s Washington Post. Penn told Bush: “Many of your actions to date and those proposed seem to violate every defining principle of this country over which you preside” and scurrilously charged that “you seem to be willing to sacrifice the children of the world.” Penn also warned: "You are a man of faith, but your saber is rattling the faith of many Americans in you."
CyberAlert Tuesday October 22, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 165) - 2) From the “fair and balanced” network fair warning that FNC stories from inside Iraq may not be so fair and balanced. On Monday night, FNC anchor Brit Hume cautioned his viewers about how FNC’s reporter in Baghdad “works under close Iraqi monitoring of where he goes and what he reports.” Will other networks follow FNC’s lead and provide such an advisory?
CyberAlert Friday October 25, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 167) - 7) Add CNN founder Ted Turner to the list of those opposed to President Bush’s anti-Saddam Hussein policy. U.S. News quoted this sarcastic remark from Turner: “I love it when we attack countries that are smaller than us.”
CyberAlert Monday November 4, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 174) - When Larry King suggested to Bill Maher on Friday night that Americans “try to do good, don't we? I mean we're basically good,” the former host of ABC’s Politically Incorrect rejected the notion: “No. Not for the rest of the world.” Maher proceeded to charge: “Iraqis, I think, feel that if we drove smaller cars, maybe we wouldn't have to kill them for their oil because certainly the first Gulf War was about cheap gas.”
CyberAlert Thursday November 14, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 181) - Jennings versus Rather. Peter Jennings displayed smug delight Wednesday night as he reported on Saddam Hussein’s announcement that he would allow weapons inspectors into Iraq, adding: “The Bush administration has been threatening war almost on the assumption that Iraq would not cooperate.” But CBS’s Dan Rather noted how all Hussein had done was take “the first small step required of him to possibly avoid war.”
CyberAlert Wednesday November 20, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 185) - In JFK Story, NBC Features Shot at Bush on Iraq: A nice shot at a "healthy" President's policies given a forum by NBC Nightly News. During a piece on how President Kennedy had more health problems and was taking more drugs than previously known, reporter Bob Faw featured this soundbite from Kennedy adviser Ted Sorensen: "We had a President who had ailments who, in the Cuban missile crisis, kept us out of war. Now we have a President who's very fit. What conclusions do you draw from that?"
CyberAlert Thursday December 5, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 192) - 1. Another Anti-Bush Iraq Policy Twist From Peter Jennings ABC’s Peter Jennings always finds a way to twist the news into an especially negative take on Bush’s Iraq policy. On Wednesday night he teased World News Tonight by noting how “the government of Iraq will tell the world it has no weapons of mass destruction” and he then asked: “The Bush administration will say it’s a lie, but who will prove it?” Jennings next intoned: “The Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq tells Ted Koppel in Baghdad that war is inevitable because the Bush administration wants it.”
2. CNN Suggests Iraq Showing Its “Goodwill” A CNN reporter on Tuesday night suggested that the Iraqi regime allowing UN weapons inspectors into one of Saddam Hussein’s palace complexes was “symbolic” of “Iraq's goodwill.” In case you haven't figured it out...DUH!
And then you post links to more than a few sources showing him to be correct....LOL.
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