Posted on 11/30/2007 5:28:24 PM PST by RDTF
Transcript:
HELEN THOMAS: Does the President want no troops out from Iraq on his watch? I’m talking about all the troops.
MS. PERINO: Well, 5,700 troops will be home by the end of the year, so that is some troops coming home. The President said that troop levels are going to be made by commanders on the ground, and that we’re going to have to talk about –
THOMAS: Why should it be? Why can’t the American people have a say?
MS. PERINO: — return on success. The American people have had a say. They elected a President who is their Commander-in-Chief and is making decisions based on what his commanders on the ground are telling him.
THOMAS: And you think that was the vote of the American people?
MS. PERINO: They elected a Commander-in-Chief, and the President is bringing home 5,700 troops, based on the recommendations of his commanders on the ground and based on return on success. Hopefully in the future we can bring home more, but it’s going to depend on what General Petraeus reports and remember he will come back in March.
THOMAS: Why should we depend on him?
MS. PERINO: Because he is the commander on the ground, Helen. He’s the one who is making sure that the situation is moving –
THOMAS: You mean how many more people we kill?
MS. PERINO: Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row position, bestowed upon you by your colleagues, to make such statements. This is a — it is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing room, and to suggest that we, at the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive.
THOMAS: Do you know how many we have since the start of this war?
MS. PERINO: How many — we are going after the enemy, Helen. To the extent that any innocent Iraqis have been killed, we have expressed regret for it.
Q Oh, regret. It doesn’t bring back a life.
MS. PERINO: Helen, we are in a war zone, and our military works extremely hard to make sure that everyone has the opportunity for liberty and freedom and democracy, and that is exactly what they are doing.
I’m going to move on.
‘...regret. It doesn’t bring back a life.’
‘Helen Thomas supports abortion...’
Outstanding point!!
You got it.
Helen Thomas is the hard chancre sore on the genitals of journalism.
Excellent response from Dana Perina. Shame on Helen Thomas, not that I expect journalistic integrity from her.
Helen is the model for all witches everywhere! ICK
When an abortion proponant expresses concern over “life” it’s usually one they didn’t get to terminatge.
The press conference is not a debate or an interview. Ask your QUESTION and possibly a FOLLOWUP. Don’t deny the points and use it to continue to blame America for the evils of the world.
Take a stand and move elsewhere to decry how “rotten” the US is. And then move back the next time a Democrat is elected and ignore the continuation of much of the foreign policy and say how much better it is now. “those are OUR planes now”.
It’s seriously time for Helen Thomas to be led back into the barn:
Let her eat her hay in private, piss where she needs to, just get the F$%k off the stage!
>>>I am not going there.
I found this on the web...
(as pictured circa 23,000 years B.C.)
Oh Yes!
“why doesn’t helen just march in with a hamas flag?”
that’s good.
someone please take helen to the portal so she can crossover. what a moonbat.
Dana you handled that very well. You sounded like a reasonable adult, and helen baby sounded like a zealot hippy.
Under Saddam’s Iraq she would have had her tongue cut out. In Fidel’s Cuba she would be arrested for “mental illness.” She would not last long in Chavez’s Venezuela either.
I was in Germany for thirty years. Somewhere along the way, the Europeans discovered deoderant. But back in the ‘60s, I attended an opera in Vienna, in a box near the stage. My wife and I sat down and soon we were nearly overcome by the smell of the old ladies seated in the box below. Evidentally, they were wearing their best wollens, which had not been washed for years. Maybe not aired, either, which was the normal thing. But we got used to it, watching the show with unusual attention. After all, we had come very late and got a bargain price, which we now earned.
I feel terrible for Helen Thomas that God made her so ugly.
I believe everybody has the potential for true beauty. However your flesh eventually conforms to the shape of your soul.
Look at the faces of the old people you know and compare their faces with their ways. You’ll see.
‘...regret. It doesn’t bring back a life.’
‘Helen Thomas supports abortion...’
Outstanding point!!
plus, anti-war types like Helen don’t care about our military lives either. all libs are is wrong headed, backwards, upside down thinkers. don;t bother talking to them as logic and common sense just confuses them more.
you just cracked me up!
I don’t care how old she is, she is an America hating filthy left wing scum.
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