NYT Bureau Chief John Burns (Positive) Charlie Rose Iraq Interview

Free Republic ^ | 1/27/07 | self

[beyond the sea]

ping

[Cindy]

Thank you beyond the sea.
Interesting post.
I appreciate it.

[msnimje]

I like John Burns. I don't read the NYT but I do see him on TV often.

[msnimje]

[Miss Marple]

Thank you. I am pinging someone who perhaps will read this.

[woofie]

Thanks for the Ping

[neverhillorat]

Wonder if the Rats are real happy about going to War at this moment in time, using these idiotic resolutions? The President is going ahead no matter what, and he and the troops under Patraeus, just might pull it off. Meanwhile any Republican that sides with them has got a real problem. Bet by Sunday, the song will be sung with different words. Nancy will be all over the Sunday shows, maybe in a flack jacket, saying that she wants to give the troops, NOT BUSH, more time. We`ll know if the RATS are going to back off if most of these Sunday free commercials for the DNC discuss how Bush is against old people.
Hope this is right for once.

[beyond the sea]

Yes, thanks for the pic .......... that's the "unshorn Merino sheep".

;-)

That guy has been around!

[HAL9000]

One thing that sets John F. Burns apart from other reporters in Iraq was his courage in reporting about the brutality of Saddam's regime while Saddam was in power.

Here was a good example: How Many People Has Hussein Killed? - January 26, 2003

[beyond the sea]

G.W. and military ............. ping.

[beyond the sea]

A fine writer too .......

"In the unlit blackness of an October night, it took a flashlight to pick them out: rust-colored butchers' hooks, 20 or more, each four or five feet long, aligned in rows along the ceiling of a large hangar-like building. In the grimmest fortress in Iraq's gulag, on the desert floor 20 miles west of Baghdad, this appeared to be the grimmest corner of all, the place of mass hangings that have been a documented part of life under Saddam Hussein."

"At one end of the building at Abu Ghraib prison, a whipping wind gusted through open doors. At the far end, the flashlight picked out a windowed space that appeared to function as a control room. Baggy trousers of the kind worn by many Iraqi men were scattered at the edges of the concrete floor. Some were soiled, as if worn in the last, humiliating moments of a condemned man's life."

[JohnLongIsland]

she's going to do it for the children...

[LibFreeOrDie]

The video is here, first one at top:

http://www.charlierose.com/

[beyond the sea]

Thank you.

[beyond the sea]

ping

[neverhillorat]

Nah, maybe the supporters of the non-binding resolution (lawyer talk for gutless, and this time it won`t work)will listen to Hillorat who LOVES our troops. She only despises the uniforms.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I remember seeing him on CNN International when I was in Denmark. He was used quite extensively in interviews on CNN International shortly before and after Saddam had been executed.

[beyond the sea]

He's one of the best.

[beyond the sea]

Looks a little like Kurt Vonnegut.