Posted on 04/01/2007 11:05:53 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
WARE:
The large network that I've just been with eschews working with any foreign fighters. They say "we can't trust them" and quite tellingly they say they're not trained enough or skilled enough.
These guys, some of them are from the Fedayeen. Indeed, the leader of this unit is a former Fedayeen. They're very cutthroat. These guys mean business and they're blood thirsty.
But the bulk of the commanders and the bulk of the fighters are former military, former intelligence, former security staff. These men are well trained and committed. The Fedayeen are fighting for revenge and for the dream that one day perhaps, Saddam fantastically might come back.
However the ex-military officers are fighting, as they say, for Iraq. Saddam or not, they want foreign occupiers off their soil and they're going about it with some precision. Certainly a lot more than we've seen before.
HH (Hugh Hewitt): Compared to what, Mr. Ware? Compared to Baghdad under Saddam? Are you arguing that Iraqis are worse off today than they were four years ago?
Anderson Cooper: Michael Ware, do you want to respond?
Michael Ware: Yeah, well I think if you ask a lot of Iraqis, I think you'll be surprised by what the answer is. A whole lot of them say what? This is democracy? The joke is you call this liberation. And okay, let's look at the context, as you suggest. Let's look at the even bigger picture. What is the bigger picture? Who's winning from this war? Who is benefitting right now? Well, the main winners so far are al Qaeda, which is stronger than it was before the invasion. Abu Musab al Zarqawi was a nobody. Now he's the superstar of international jihad. And Iran...Iran essentially has a proxy government in place, a very, very friendly government. Its sphere of influence has expanded, and any U.S. diplomat or senior military intelligence commander here will tell you that. So that's the big picture. Where is that being reported?
Never? He must not watch the MSM. They're all just like this jerk is!
VDH (Victor Davis Hanson): Is that man a journalist?
HH (Hugh Hewitt): Well, he's the Time Magazine Baghdad bureau chief.
VDH (Victor Davis Hanson): That's just a mockery of what we would call sober and judicious reporting. And everything he said was factually incorrect. We dismantled two thirds of the al Qaeda heirarchy, and Mr. Zarqawi was well enough to get an invitation to come before we went into Iraq to seek medical care under Saddam. Everything he said was untrue, and when we went into Iraq, nobody knew much about the Iranian nuclear program. The entire world is galvanizing against it now. The Iranians are petrified that this democratic experiment will work right on their border, and one of the most subversive things they can imagine right next to them. And the United States knows so much more about the danger of Iran than it did two years ago. The world was asleep to their nuclear antics. And 67% of the people have confidence in Iraq, according to the polls, that things are getting better. And it shows two things. One is that this idea of stability is always better than the chaos that comes with freedom. It's like saying that Hitler or Stalin...1936 Germany was much, much better than anything you can imagine in the 20's, when you had inflation. Or Stalin's...after the purges, there was a sense of order in Russia. All of that's true, as long as you accept that Saddam was killing 40-50,000 people a year. And the second is this utopianism that all wars are a choice between something's perfect, and something that is bad. When we went to war after 9/11, and we had one war with Saddam in '91, a second war with 12 years of no-fly zones, then we had...there were no good choices. There was a bad choice and a worse choice.
He's a "window licker".
His story in Time was prior to the more recent sniper video incident.
Here is a transcript from a 2004 interview that details his contacts with our enemies.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2004/s1145069.htm
That post on McCain was in the grand tradition of April Fool's Day (like Google maps today giving directions on how to reach London by swimming across the ocean). And it'd be just as far a trip for McCain to be to the right of Hunter or several other Republican candidates!
Make my next drink whatever you're having...
WTH?? This is the first time I’ve ever heard McCain called diametrically opposite to a Democrap!
I’m aghast!.
April fools right?
"McCain is the furthest thing from a dem. He is probably the only person on our side running for President who isn't a RINO..."
April Fools, right?
I suspect that the better part of both of them dribbled down Helen's leg!!
Thanks for the "dig". Good info! Suprised its on ABC.
Ernie Pyle...RIP!
exposed in his dirty underWare
I really wish you would have put a sarcasm tag on your posts that suggested McCain was a conservative. Your Aprils Fool joke really made a fool out of me.
In spite of all of McCain's attempts to curry favor with the MSM, his old 'friends' have turned on him.
this is activism not a network
Funny. Every other reporter reporting from the same hotel has their hair done, makeup on and has managed to shave. I guess this turd is just too gritty for that.
Yeah, I was just thinking Ms. Lindsay probably had to take a couple of aspirin and lay down for awhile...
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