Posted on 12/01/2005 8:28:53 PM PST by Libloather
Reporter's Notebook:
The Making of "Winning Iraq"
By Greg Palkot
FNC's Greg Palkot
It was one of those good news/bad news offers. The good news is you get to go to Iraq to do something more than the typical schedule of live shots. The bad news is you get to go to Iraq and do more than the typical schedule of live shots. Meaning: You put yourself in as much harm's way as nearly possible to find out how people not trying to cause harm are living.
You see the point is, we, out of necessity in the business, have to cover the suicide bomb attacks, insurgent raids, and door-kicking which get most of the headlines in the Iraq story. But there is this whole mass of people in Iraq who, IN SPITE of the trouble, are getting on with their lives. And, in many cases, making their lives better than when tyrant Saddam was around.
**SNIP**
Will it all work out? Wherever you stand on the debate on the war, you have to hope so, for the sake of the people in Iraq who had no say in how things went one way or another. In the documentary on Saturday night, you'll meet a whole bunch of these people. And we promise you that you won't see a single press conference by a politician bloviating, as my colleague Bill O'Reilly would say. I invite you to tune in. I promise you it’s a side of Iraq you won't see anywhere else — it needs to be seen.
Greg Palkot is a foreign correspondent for FOX News Channel based in Paris, France.
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Oh I wish I could see it! I don't get fox :(
Is there any place on the internet that you can watch fox TV?
Just to be fair to a member of the old MSM...
IIRC, an ABC correspondent named Nick Watt did a story on "problems"
in Iraq.
He did such a low-key, just-the-facts-ma'am job that I think his
editors didn't realize he was simply reporting this:
a lot of the moaning and complaining about the misery of the Iraqis is
rooted in a BURST of pent-up consumer demand by millions of people that
couldn't legally own/operate TVs, internet-ready computers and cell-phones.
And that this has simply overtaxed the pathetic infrastructure
left by a madman that spent billions of dollars on building
mansions/palaces tackier than anything ever seen in tourist traps
in the USA.
Did anyone else catch that Murtha's evaluation was based on conversations he had "when he visited Iraq last year" which would have been in 2004? His opinion appears based on very old info.
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I plan to watch!!
Saturday, Dec 3 - Fox News Channel - 9pm ET.
Not too sure. Great time to visit your local cable-ready sports bar - eh? (Oh, and be sure you tell them to TURN IT UP!)
This FNC site should have a link to a preview -
http://www.foxnews.com/fnctv/index.html
I think he's just making it up - but what's new, eh? The US spends over 2.6 TRILLION dollars every year - with Murtha's approval. The Army, which he refers to as "broken," and "worn out", would be partially his fault.
I think he's full of it.
Iraqi Army soldiers wave their guns in celebration moments after a ceremony to restore Iraqi border security in the restive city of Kusaiybah, Iraq, 30 November. US Lieutenant General Martin Dempsey, the man in charge of training Iraqi forces on the ground, said many obstacles remain in Iraq(AFP/POOL/File/David Furst)
Pinging myself so I remember to ping everyone again on Saturday.
Fair warning to the Merry Band of Patriots. You're gonna be pinged again.
Ping - Please mention this on your radio shows today!
Thanks for the ping.
This looks great, I'm looking forward to watching this. Crack open a cold drink, kick back and enjoy!
bttt
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