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Helen Thomas, Impartial Journalist, in Today's WH Press Briefing
White House Website ^ | 6 January 2003 | the White House

Posted on 01/06/2003 6:55:22 PM PST by SFConservative

ARI FLEISCHER: And with that, I'm more than happy to take your questions. Helen.

HELEN THOMAS, Hearst Newspapers columnist: At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up.

FLEISCHER: I refer specifically to a horrible terrorist attack on Tel Aviv that killed scores and wounded hundreds. And the President, as he said in his statement yesterday, deplores in the strongest terms the taking of those lives and the wounding of those people, innocents in Israel.

THOMAS: My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?

FLEISCHER: Helen, the question is how to protect Americans, and our allies and friends --

THOMAS: They're not attacking you.

FLEISCHER: -- from a country --

THOMAS: Have they laid the glove on you or on the United States, the Iraqis, in 11 years?

FLEISCHER: I guess you have forgotten about the Americans who were killed in the first Gulf War as a result of Saddam Hussein's aggression then.

THOMAS: Is this revenge, 11 years of revenge?

FLEISCHER: Helen, I think you know very well that the President's position is that he wants to avert war, and that the President has asked the United Nations to go into Iraq to help with the purpose of averting war.

THOMAS: Would the President attack innocent Iraqi lives?

FLEISCHER: The President wants to make certain that he can defend our country, defend our interests, defend the region, and make certain that American lives are not lost.

THOMAS: And he thinks they are a threat to us?

FLEISCHER: There is no question that the President thinks that Iraq is a threat to the United States.

THOMAS: The Iraqi people?

FLEISCHER: The Iraqi people are represented by their government. If there was regime change, the Iraqi --

THOMAS: So they will be vulnerable?

FLEISCHER: Actually, the President has made it very clear that he has not dispute with the people of Iraq. That's why the American policy remains a policy of regime change. There is no question the people of Iraq --

THOMAS: That's a decision for them to make, isn't it? It's their country.

FLEISCHER: Helen, if you think that the people of Iraq are in a position to dictate who their dictator is, I don't think that has been what history has shown.

THOMAS: I think many countries don't have -- people don't have the decision -- including us.


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To: mhking
Sorry, mhking, please send me the bill .... your imminent stomach pump's on me.
41 posted on 01/06/2003 7:26:53 PM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: UnBlinkingEye
Which nations are you hallucinating about?
42 posted on 01/06/2003 7:28:45 PM PST by clintonh8r
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To: SFConservative
Nice shades ... is there a spitting cobra sitting at her feet?
43 posted on 01/06/2003 7:29:07 PM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: UnBlinkingEye
It's a newly announced asinine policy, apparently directed only towards those nations that can't defend themselves.

Well, Helen, this isn't a game where we make sure the sides are evenly matched before the opening whistle. The President has been quite deliberate and allowed everyone to cooperate before anyone gets hurt.

44 posted on 01/06/2003 7:30:08 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: SFConservative
Ummmm isn't Helen Thoman of Arab Extraction?
45 posted on 01/06/2003 7:30:41 PM PST by Mike Darancette
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To: Mike Darancette
Thoman=Thomas
46 posted on 01/06/2003 7:31:51 PM PST by Mike Darancette
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To: SFConservative
Helen needs to go to iraq as a sitting quack!
47 posted on 01/06/2003 7:31:52 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: SFConservative
"Would the President attack innocent Iraqi lives?"

Evidently Ms. Thomas was asleep during Impeacho's administration or her medication has been adjusted.

49 posted on 01/06/2003 7:32:25 PM PST by red-dawg
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To: sweetliberty
lolrof

and so does Hillary she needs to fly on her broom over to Iraq as a sitting quack!
50 posted on 01/06/2003 7:33:13 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: Paul Atreides
As they say in Texas: Some people just need harpooning!
51 posted on 01/06/2003 7:33:48 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: UnBlinkingEye; veronica; SJackson; Alouette; Cachelot; BenF; dennisw
"The dead and wounded in Israel have my prayers, on all sides."

And thus do you equate victims with their murderers. Prayers are best reserved for VICTIMS, and mine are. Their vicious killers merit only oblivion.

Helen Thomas, over the past two years, has not "exposed Ari Fleischer for being a shill", as you so provocatively put it. Rather, she has exposed herself as the true shill...for Muslim terrorists, whom she tirelessly champions with her writings and insolent "questions", asked as though she was a prosecutor at trial.

Your statement shows whom YOU support, as well, if you can make no distinction between murderer and murdered.

53 posted on 01/06/2003 7:34:28 PM PST by Long Cut
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To: clintonh8r
Communist countries do not allow freedom of the press. We're better than that in the US. One of the prices of freedom of the press is opposing voices - you should celebrate. It's ok to celebrate by bitching!
54 posted on 01/06/2003 7:35:06 PM PST by Chu Gary
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To: Paul Atreides
Paul, there's always that hesitant, careful analysis ... when you conclude that she was butt ugly even when she was young.
55 posted on 01/06/2003 7:35:39 PM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: ArneFufkin
How does a man seperate his revulsion of Helen Thomas' corrupt agenda and deceitful ethos from his primal desire of animal lust, need and passion for her?

I know how you feel, but that creature is inedible. Even with lots of barbecue sauce.

56 posted on 01/06/2003 7:36:14 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: Chu Gary
...and your comment applies to my post #42, how?
57 posted on 01/06/2003 7:37:22 PM PST by clintonh8r
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To: Mike Darancette
Ummmm isn't Helen Thomas of Arab Extraction?

Well, she was born in Winchester, Kentucky. It's quite plausible that her birth involved extracting her from the rear end of an Arabian horse ...

58 posted on 01/06/2003 7:37:53 PM PST by SFConservative
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To: Blue Screen of Death
"Each time she makes a fool of herself some republican gets his wings."

LOL! That's good!

60 posted on 01/06/2003 7:39:01 PM PST by A Citizen Reporter
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