If anyone is interested, you can actually watch the whole video of Meet the Press here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/
and click on the video.
The Arnold interview starts about halfway.
In an exclusive interview California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joins Tim Russert in studio. Plus, Armed Services Cmte. Chairman John Warner, R-Va., & Homeland Security Cmte. Chairman Peter King, R-N.Y., on port security & the violence in Iraq
And one more thing about Arnold's interview.
Russert started to go on and on about the number of US military who died in Iraq. (page 6 of the transcript).
Note Arnold's reply, where he mentions in a subtle way, that people die on the job here in the US too, and doesn't let Russert turn this into an anti-war thing.
These are the things that we need to look at and appreciate in Arnold.
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MR. RUSSERT: Let me ask about Iraq because it affects California in a very big way. These are the numbers of Californians lost in the war: killed, 242; wounded, 1,857. You now have 20,000 Californians serving in Iraq, 4,000 of them, National Guard and reserves. Are you concerned that the National Guard in your state is being depleted by the war?
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: Sure, it has an effect. And let me tell you something. It really—it kills me every time when I hear that one of our officers or someone from the military or National Guard dies over there. It is terrible. And, you know, I got this morning, for instance, terrible news that Gregory John Bailey, one of our CHPs, died last night—yesterday because he was run over by a drunk driver and while he was ticketing another driver. And when you hear news like that, it is terrible.
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