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Vieira Shocker: 'Can We Afford to Leave Iraq if Iran Will Take Over?'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/30/2007 5:22:40 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Edited on 01/30/2007 5:38:41 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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1 posted on 01/30/2007 5:22:42 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Cold-July-in-Baghdad ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 01/30/2007 5:23:13 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
This is just now occurring to her?!

Well, better late than never :)

3 posted on 01/30/2007 5:26:08 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

She's showing a mind of her own. How did she ever survive in the MSM?


4 posted on 01/30/2007 5:26:09 AM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

minor point- it's LtCol Rick Francona (USAF ret)


5 posted on 01/30/2007 5:27:12 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Didn't Meredith get Hillary's memo? We've got to be out by the end of W's term!

Ask Hillary about Bosnia.

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This is a good interview to hear, but I fear that it is just a snowflake in a blizzard of lefty weather.

6 posted on 01/30/2007 5:27:28 AM PST by beyond the sea ( All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest)
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Didn't Meredith get Hillary's memo? We've got to be out by the end of W's term!

Of all the blather we've had from The Beast the last two weeks that statement rankled me the most! Talk about bald-faced hypocrisy!

7 posted on 01/30/2007 5:29:57 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

She deserves the Stopped Clock Award.

Iran also wants to stop Iraq's oil production as well as the freedom people have to earn a living. The average Iraqi makes 10 times what an Iranian earns.

Pray for W and Our Troops


8 posted on 01/30/2007 5:30:54 AM PST by bray (Redeploy to Iran)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Then the MSM can whine "Bush left Iraq prematurely and deserted our friends the Iraqis to be dominated by the awful Iranian regime!" No matter what, they will always call him wrong.


9 posted on 01/30/2007 5:31:13 AM PST by Moonmad27
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Francona made his thesis clear from the get-go: "We're in a power struggle with the Iranians over who's going to exercise influence in the future in Iraq, and they want to be that power. It's either us or them."

Iran doesn't want to exercise influence in just Iraq .. but the whole middle east

My question is ... Why did these numbnuts finally decided to admit this on TV?

They've known for a very long time what's at stake

11 posted on 01/30/2007 5:35:24 AM PST by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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Whoops! Many thanks for pointing out my error - not so minor! Terry Francona is the manager of the Red Sox! I've fixed on my own over at NB, and will ask admin mod to correct here!


12 posted on 01/30/2007 5:36:22 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Retired LTC Terry Francona was Meredith's guest on this morning's "Today."

That's right . . . before his career as a major league baseball player and then as manager of the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox, Terry Francona was a light colonel.

"Thank God I didn't go to West Point," said Francona. "If I had, the humiliation would have been just all too consuming."

13 posted on 01/30/2007 5:39:19 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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I cannot pull up the video- was the guest this morning Terry Francona or Rick Francona? Rick is an NBC military analyst and regional specialist (was Schwarzkopf's personal translator during DESERT STORM).


14 posted on 01/30/2007 5:48:02 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

Go ahead, rub it in - I deserve it! ;-)


15 posted on 01/30/2007 5:54:20 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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Guest was Rick and the admin mod has kindly fixed the error. Again, thanks for bringing to my attention.


16 posted on 01/30/2007 5:55:58 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

As always, any conversation which includes a member of the MSM showing a brief moment of clarity will be either be instantly forgotten or countered heavily once they find the "correct" analyst to refute.


17 posted on 01/30/2007 6:09:54 AM PST by soloNYer
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Go ahead, rub it in - I deserve it! ;-)

Heh heh heh! It's all good---you're just a subliminal member of Red Sox Nation. Welcome to the cult!

18 posted on 01/30/2007 6:11:21 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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Call it my Bill Buckner moment ;-)


19 posted on 01/30/2007 6:11:51 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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How did she ever survive in the MSM?

Give it time.....

20 posted on 01/30/2007 6:14:18 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Just the facts, ma'am)
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