Posted on 03/30/2003 3:16:09 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
JOHN GIBSON: "Peter Arnett, who is now employed as a correspondant by National Georgraphic Television, was interviewed by one of Iraq's Information Ministers on Iraq State TV.
He began interviewing Arnett about what is going on in Iraq and what is going on in America about the war.
What Peter Arnett said is that it is clear that is going on in the US is clear that there is a growing challange of Bush's conduct of the war and then Arnett seemed to take credit for that, by saying that HIS reports from Iraq are helping opposition grow. "
ARNETT:" It is clear that within the United States that there is growing challenge to President Bush and he conduct about the war. And it is clear that our reports here about the Iraqi civilian casualties in the war, and the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States, and it helps those who oppose the war and challenge the policies to develop their arguments. "
So Arnett did not acknowldege what is a Pentagon claim, that the Iraqi casualties could be from Iraqi missiles which are errant missiles which are falling back down on their own Iraqi population. But Arnett went on to claim credit for growing opposition in the United States, but claimed that the Pentagon's War is a failure.
ARNETT: "Now America is reappraising the battlefield plan and delaying the war, for maybe a week. The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. "
Of course Peter Arnett is now working for the National Georgraphic program, he has a deal with NBC and appears on another cable network. He has been allowed to do whatever he wants. This while other news agencies have been kicked out of Iraq, including Fox News Channel and CNN. And in addition the Newsday Newspapers has two reporters missing and assumed to be held by authorities in Iraq, yet Peter Arnett is allowed to stay. I guess that we can come to our own conclusions, it appears that Peter Arnett is now operating in Iraq and doing Iraq great favors by his own estimation, in organizing opposition to the war, here in this country, in the United States by his reports, and by giving the Iraqis a growing sense of nationalism, because by his accounts, the initial war plan has failed, and the Iraqi opposition has sent the war planners back to the drawing board.
So there you have it, Peter Arnett in Iraq.
"Arnett also said "clearly this is a city that is disciplined, the population is responsive to the government's requirements of discipline," CNNs article
I am from behind the Iron Curtain.
Communist Hungary was also a place where we had to be "responsive to to the government's requirements of discipline"
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Oh come on HLL, you know ours is not to question why, ours is to shut up and genuflect!
Bye, bye, Geraldo, for now. Bye, bye Arnett. That was a fast freep. We got the ball rolling IMO.
Do you know that I couldn't even get on this thread just now except to go to my comments? It appears this thread is flooded.
I URGE LURKERS TO REGISTER AT FREE REPUBLIC. You get your own profile page and can post your own material or journalist accounts such as this one and that's just the beginning...
GOOD JOB getting the ball rolling on a Sunday night! That was a fast freep and left the Blixy Chix boycott in the dust. The Blixy Chix are even less than nothing than they were before.
And it is clear that our freeps here about the media bias in the war, and the resistance of the American people, are going back to the news divisions, and it helps those who oppose the media and challenge the policies to develop their arguments.
Now news divisions are reappraising the battlefield plan and delaying their coverage from Peter Arnett, for maybe a week. The first plan has failed because of freeper resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan.
Please get back to me when that name comes to you.
I'm sure you've been hit already for this completely erroneous statement, but just in case you question it, Arnett himself stated he's a US citizen in his mea (sorta) culpa today on the Today show.
Now, let's lobby to have him ARRESTED!!!
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