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Former CNN reporter says U.S. war planners ignored Iraqi resistance
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| 3-30-03
Posted on 03/30/2003 5:16:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Thee usual suspect - not suprised when I saw the story break on FoxNews. This person is the worst of the worst of anti-American 'citizens of the world' reporters. I seem to recall he did the same kind of aiding and abetting 'reporting' in the Vietnam War from Hanoi. I was in the Army during the time of Desert Storm, when this piece of leftist garbage did the same 'reporting' from Bagdad, we were always hoping for a bomb to hit his local.
It is time to take a stand, finally in this time of war on terorr, to quit fooling around, and start enforcing our laws, such as arresting him as soon as he ever hits U.S. soil for sedition or treason, or better yet, take him into custody, if taken alive, as an enemy combatant, when we take Bagdad.
To: Wisc Paul
According to the reporter for Fox News who is at the Pentagon, the senior officials are fuming about Peter Arnett's interview. YES!!
To: Wisc Paul
"It is time to take a stand, finally in this time of war on terorr, to quit fooling around, and start enforcing our laws, such as arresting him as soon as he ever hits U.S. soil for sedition or treason, or better yet, take him into custody, if taken alive, as an enemy combatant, when we take Bagdad."Odds that the convenient coersion rumor was started to cover just such an eventuality?
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posted on
03/30/2003 7:16:32 PM PST
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = VERY expensive, very SCRATCHY toilet paper.)
To: Howlin
Oh my gosh..thanks for the ping. I'm sending off my letter..
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posted on
03/30/2003 7:34:08 PM PST
by
Freedom2specul8
(Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
To: Howlin
American citizen Arnett should be punished severely for his anti-America statements to an enemy government official on enemy television...but he should be shot for that dreadful bad hair comb over.
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posted on
03/30/2003 8:24:18 PM PST
by
YaYa123
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Pathetic Indeed... another of Saddam's USEFUL IDIOTS exposes himself.
This SOB should be arrested immediately upon his return (if he dares) to the US.
To: mewzilla
Arnett was fired by CNN after a story he signed off on, about how the U.S. used sarin gas on POW's in Laos, was proved to be false. He said he wasn't responsible, that he was a sacrificial lamb, etc. since not all those associated with that particular smear story were fired.
What's really interesting about this story is how the print media is reporting it as straight news, with not a little subtle smirking.
I can't help thinking of the leftist professor on O'Reilly last week who was accusing Fox of bias in favor of the war, based on the fact that some of its reporters had referred to the U.S. as "we."
In the liberal mind, Fox is biased for acknowledging loyalty to the U.S. in the use of the first person plural, but Arnett expressing his personal anti-war, pro-Iraqi views on the enemy's state-run TV station, as a reporter for an American network, during wartime, is legitimate journalism.
To: All
When the reporter becomes the story, or so much of the story that the story is inseparable from the reporter, its called either A) Gonzo reporting or B) Bad reporting. And dagnabit, Arnett is NO P.J. ORourke or Hunter S. Thompson.
Arnett's track record in terms of "unbiased reporting" speaks for itself.
If we werent at war, Id be laughing at this guy. As it is, what hes doing is reprehensible beyond words (I can only express my discontent by slamming the keys as I type this). In summation: Grrrr.
My solution? Leave the SOB in Baghdad. Hey, maybe the Iraqis could "embed" him with a Republican Guard outfit we're about to "soften", eh? One can dream.
P.S. Speaking of O'Rourke, I've heard he, Christopher Hitchens, and a couple of other gonzoish types are supposedly running around Northern Iraq or something like that...anyone with more info please post a link to the thread or freepmail me. Love to see what they have to say about things, right or wrong...
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posted on
03/30/2003 11:11:41 PM PST
by
Kip Lange
(The Khaki Pants of Freedom)
To: browardchad
BTT
To: Oldeconomybuyer; Howlin
Thank goodness the journos have not joined the military! LOL. They don't seem able to learn from their own experiences.
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posted on
03/30/2003 11:25:16 PM PST
by
WaterDragon
(Playing possum doesn't work against nukes.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Any chance he had a gun to his head during this "interview"? I wouldn't put it past the Iraqi regime to put this out as propaganda. I doubt it. Even if he did have a gun pointed to his head, he was still saying what he wanted to say. The man's a whore at best, a traitor at worst. Just go back and study his track record. It speaks for itself.
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posted on
03/30/2003 11:42:25 PM PST
by
Kip Lange
(The Khaki Pants of Freedom)
To: Just mythoughts
Since all the newies are singing from the same songbook maybe this is another of the leftist orchestrated efforts to sow seeds of doubt. Could the newly Senator on the ARmed Services Committee be behind this new verse. I sincerely doubt it. You give the Left too much credit. :-) Heinlein's Razor -- Never attribute to human malice what can more easily be attributed to human stupidity. Arnett's a traitorous media whore. End of story.
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posted on
03/30/2003 11:45:25 PM PST
by
Kip Lange
(The Khaki Pants of Freedom)
To: chainsaw
So in my opinion this pause is very benificial for our troops in Iraq. That former CNN journalist can go pound sand you know where. If there is indeed a "pause", then your argument is absolutely right, but I take issue with the idea that there IS a pause. I'm not saying there isn't; I'm not saying there is. I'm saying that I do not have one scrap of the war plan to point to and say, "See, here is where we're supposed to be taking our 'operational pause'," or, alternatively, "Here is our contingency plan for ______" (plug your favorite stupid press briefing topic into there).
Saying that we have "paused" indicates, rhetorically, that we have stopped operations in some sense. *That* I simply do not believe to be the case. So if there *is* a "pause", it consists of BDA, re-tuning equipment, re-fueling, flexing supply lines, what have you. That is to say, there is action going on EVERY SECOND. So, in that sense, I can say that there *is* no pause, but pretty much, I can't say anything with any degree of certainty, except that our victory is assured. Peter Arnett can't even get to the assured victory part. :p
P.S. Please don't take this as a flame, I'm just pouring out my daily dosage of armchair-general-hating vitriol...your post makes perfect sense, *if* there is a pause, I'm just rejecting the "knowability", to borrow a Rumsfeld line, of that assertion.
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posted on
03/30/2003 11:57:41 PM PST
by
Kip Lange
(The Khaki Pants of Freedom)
To: YaYa123
There's no doubt in watching the replay several times, Arnett was not under duress, and wasn't coerced into making the very forceful statements he made against the US military and the President. I absolutely agree. And I *don't* think he was doing it just to "stay in Iraq". Again, I point to Arnett's track record of proven bias and lies.
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:04:04 AM PST
by
Kip Lange
(The Khaki Pants of Freedom)
To: browardchad
In the liberal mind, Fox is biased for acknowledging loyalty to the U.S. in the use of the first person plural, but Arnett expressing his personal anti-war, pro-Iraqi views on the enemy's state-run TV station, as a reporter for an American network, during wartime, is legitimate journalism. Smack! Wham! The man hits it out of the park. ;-)
Although "liberal mind" is a bit of an oxymoron, so I'd like to amend it to "mindset", or perhaps, "dogma", since their approach to political views is always tinged first through the lenses of emotion and only much later through the clear glass of cold reason.
However, I predict you're going to see a LOT of CYA from the networks involved in this. They can read polls, and they know they survive on ratings. S'why poor little Connie got the axe. I'm not saying they'll convert en masse, but they WILL attempt mealy-mouthed apologies of all sorts in the CYA process which will provide us all with a great deal of amusement.
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:11:31 AM PST
by
Kip Lange
(The Khaki Pants of Freedom)
To: YaYa123
What really ticks me off is that Wesley Clark is a CNN analyst....he's running for PResident...he's got personal axes to grind with the current Pentagon Wesley Clark can never go that far. He has "crazy eyes". Look at the man's stare sometimes for a while. It'll genuinely freak you out, I promise. Crazy eyes, I tell you! :-)
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:16:11 AM PST
by
Kip Lange
(The Khaki Pants of Freedom)
To: Wisc Paul
Thee usual suspect - not suprised when I saw the story break on FoxNews. This person is the worst of the worst of anti-American 'citizens of the world' reporters. I seem to recall he did the same kind of aiding and abetting 'reporting' in the Vietnam War from Hanoi. I was in the Army during the time of Desert Storm, when this piece of leftist garbage did the same 'reporting' from Bagdad, we were always hoping for a bomb to hit his local. Glad to see that Arnett's track record of lies is well known, and I'd just like to say I'm damn sorry he was around to badmouth our military when you were enlisted...even more sorry the SOB is still around...rest assured, he's gonna pay for this one, one way or another. Admin. ain't just gonna sit on this (oh Lord, I hope not). Arnett hasn't just CROSSED the line; he's leapt over it like Superman would leap over a tall building. Garbage. This man is *garbage*.
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:21:51 AM PST
by
Kip Lange
(The Khaki Pants of Freedom)
To: happygrl
happygrl asks: "
Could we start a FREEP on [National Geographic Magazine]?"
A freep wouldn't phase them a bit. They were taken over by the radical left 10-20 years ago. I grew up on that magazine and can even remember when all the photos were black and white, but when they went over to the dark side, I stopped subscribing. No surprise at all that they picked up Arnett's contract.
Maybe it's time to suggest to Arnett that it would not be in his best long-term best interests to return to American soil after the war. Perhaps he and Robert Fisk could move to Lichtenstein and get married, instead.
--Boot Hill
To: OldFriend
I suspect this is a quid pro quo. Iraq threw the CNN reporter out of Baghdad and Peter obliged with this interview. That is a very intriguing idea.
Based on the comments attributed to Arnett on this thread, and how his firing from CNN derailed his career for some years, I do believe you're correct that this is gratuitous slandering by Arnett as a thank you to Iraq.
To: Use It Or Lose It; Jhensy; eleni121; txradioguy; off-roader; ThomWilkerson; Texas Chrystal; ...
Thanks to you all for your replies, and especially to Texas Chrystal for the e-mail addresses. No matter what route we take, it's my hope that Arnett doesn't make it back to this wonderful country. Some of you have made nefarious suggestions; far be it from me to spoil the fun!!!
I've sent my e-mails and will do some calling shortly. Some people just need to be taken down.
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