CBS' Lara-on-the-Spot Pooh-Poohs Plan

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Appearing on this morning's "Early Show," CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan lit into President Bush's Iraq plan. Harry Smith opened the exchange: "the question of the morning is, can Prime Minister Maliki's government hold up its end of the bargain?"

Replied the South-African born, French-educated Logan: "That's a very good question, because most people agree that this whole plan depends on the Maliki government living up to their promises. Very, very few people in Baghdad believe that Maliki is willing or able to do this. And what you're looking at is essentially a government where all signs point to a sectarian government pursuing a sectarian agenda. And so when Maliki says he's going to act against the militias the Sunnis simply just don't believe him."

Logan continued her cold water bath for the Bush proposal: "More importantly, this plan partners US forces with Iraqi army and police. And that is making US forces even more dependent on Iraqi soldiers and army who have shown repeatedly that they cannot be relied upon, and have been involved in the sectarian killings. So this is a very serious issue and raises doubts as to whether this plan can succeed."

Reporting from the Green Zone, Logan asserted that Iraqis generally don't believe in the plan either: "Most of the people that we've spoken to say they do not want more US troops here. They don't believe this is going to help. They do believe there is going to be more bloodshed."

The best she was willing to suggest was that some Iraqis are hoping against hope that the plan might work: "And yet there are some who say that in spite of everything, in spite of losing faith in US forces, the situation is now so bad that, the tension is building, people are really, really afraid, Baghdad is a very, very difficult city to be in right now, underneath it all there are some who say that in their hearts they're desperately hoping that this can somehow make a difference."

Iraqis "losing faith in US forces"? At least our home-grown Dems support the troops ;-)

Logan accused the Maliki government of having an agenda. Might Lara have one too?

Mark was in Iraq in November. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net

[governsleastgovernsbest]

CBS-pooh-poohs-plan ping to Today show list.

[1Old Pro]

The entire media is against this, instead of reporting it they lobby with the Dems - just bias as usual.

[Hildy]

I can't watch the news...it's DEMS GOOD. REPS BAD.. 24/7. When reporting on the first day of the Dem Congress, it was like Christmas morning over at CNN. With our world being so media driven I don't see how we can ever win again.

[WesternPacific]

"Most of the people that we've spoken to say...

That's easy to fix. Stop talking to your cameraman and cohorts. Talk to actual people. Not that cameramen aren't people, but....

[Mo1]

"Most of the people that we've spoken to say they do not want more US troops here. They don't believe this is going to help

Who's see talking to .. the terrorists?

[sausageseller]

The entire media is against this, instead of reporting it they lobby with the Dems - just bias as usual.

Problem is their vaulted Iraq Study Group did support increased levels.

No one is throwing that back at them.

[Courdeleon02]

Everyone both Democrat and Republican should be supporting this plan for one simple reason.If it fails there will be full blown civil war in Iraq with more lives being lost. Iran will extend its influence on the current Shiite government. Syria will be emboldened and moderate forces in Lebanon will be endangered. We had all better hope that this plan works because if it does not there will be greater chaos. Its unfortunate that the Democrat party and the likes of Kennedy and Biden have chosen to play the usual political games.

[Bahbah]

They do believe there is going to be more bloodshed.

We hope so, Lara, and that it is no longer the innocents in that country, but instead the bad guys.

[OldFriend]

The left around the world is hoping against hope that America fails. Never mind that it means the death and destruction of hundreds of thousands of people and the possible takeover of middle east oil fields.

The only word that comes to mind is INSANE

[ClaireSolt]

Media have one overriding motive. Save their own skins.

[beyond the sea]

The girl is a turn-on, though.

Sorry........ I like that girl (as long as she isn't my wife)..... she flirts with everyone she interviews.

And I love that accent.

Sick me

;-)

[LongsforReagan]

She is a hottie. Hard to believe Katie Colon doesn't feel threatened by her.

[Armedanddangerous]

I know what you mean..lovely women with foreign accents just do something to me that I cannot explain...8-)

But this little gal has been a lefty since day one...

[1Old Pro]

I agree, the biased Democrat cheerleaders in the media don't help our cause. But their influence has and continues to wane, good news.

[Hildy]

But their influence has and continues to wane, good news.

How can you say that after the last election?

[COUNTrecount]

Logan accused the Maliki government of having an agenda. Might Lara have one too?

Lara is much younger,much better looking, has a better delivery,has a more pleasing accent, has more reporting experience, and is less expensive than $45 million Katie....maybe SeeBS had an agenda too.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The best she was willing to suggest was that some Iraqis are hoping against hope that the plan might work: "And yet there are some who say that in spite of everything, in spite of losing faith in US forces, the situation is now so bad that, the tension is building, people are really, really afraid, Baghdad is a very, very difficult city to be in right now, underneath it all there are some who say that in their hearts they're desperately hoping that this can somehow make a difference."

In any area where law and order has broken down the majority will be controlled by those with the most force and the willingness to use it. That is true whether the force is exerted by the mafia, neighborhood drug gangs, or despots who control countries. Until the good guys are willing to use enough force to thoroughly crush the bad guys, the populace will not side with the good guys for fear of the bad guys.

That is why the libs insist on very politically correct rules of engagement and the application of the Geneva Convention rules where they do not apply. They want us to lose, period. There is no other explanation for their opposition to the Patriot Act, our spying on terrorists financial transactions, our holding of terrorists at Gitmo, and the restraints on how we interrogate them.

They leak our secrets to alert the enemy, like Jay Rockefeller telling Syria and Iran that Bush meant business about invading Iraq in time for Saddam to move the WMDs. That is why the liberal media leak our classified information provided to them by leftist moles in the CIA, FBI, and the State Department.

The only logical explanation, not the platitudes they hide behind, is that they want us to lose the war on terror. Are they insane? Yes! Do they think they are? No! They think that once they are in control they can negotiate a peace and make socialism work despite the long history of failure of both approaches.

They don't trust the individual to make good choices and they themselves abhor responsibility. Yet, they want to seem to be the good guys so they delegate all things to the government to relieve them of the responsibility.

The USA, as it was founded, is based on individual freedom of action and individual responsibility for those actions. The success of that system is in such stark contrast to the abject failures of Communism/Socialism that the USA must be destroyed for the left to save face or even survive.

We are fighting the Islamist on the battlefields of the world while their aiders and abettors, indeed their partners, here at home go unmolested. The enemy within, the media and the Democrats, are the greater threat to our survival.

[The South Texan]

Reporting just the facts and not adding opinion to a news story went out the window after WWII.

We would be speaking Japanese, German, Italian, or a combo of the three if the traitorous media we have today would have been around back then.

[The South Texan]

Reporting just the facts and not adding opinion to a news story went out the window after WWII.

We would be speaking Japanese, German, Italian, or a combo of the three if the traitorous media we have today would have been around back then.