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 is a New Zealander
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.
Joyce, William
190646, British Nazi propagandist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., called Lord Haw-Haw. Taken to England as a child, Joyce became involved there in the fascist movement. He went to Germany just before the outbreak of World War II and throughout the war broadcast German propaganda in English from Berlin. He was captured by British soldiers in Germany in 1945. Despite his American birth, he was adjudged subject to British jurisdiction because he held a British passport. He was convicted of treason and hanged. 1 See biography by J. A. Cole (1964); R. West, The New Meaning of Treason (rev. ed. 1967). 2
Bombs Away!
OK...this charge gets thrown around a lot these days, I know, but...
Here it is.
This is the real thing.
TREASON
Plain and simple.
This is no different than what "Tokyo Rose" did, and she was convicted of treason.
Funny you should mention - one of the ministry of information buildings was burning quite brilliantly on Fox a few minutes ago. They were showing it while introducing the story on Arnett. There was a humerous allude to the building being hit right after Arnett's interview.
If they don't disown this sonofabitch and disavow his statements...this will be my last year!
Tony Snow really perturbed me today as he asked a forward unit how they were on supplies and where they were going. Arnett isn't the only media type who is getting carried away. There are just varying degrees. EMBEDDING JOURNALISTS IS DANGEROUS TO OUR TROOPS IMO. Fregards, FV
FReep the paratreasonous forces of the press.
FReep them for General Wm. T. Sherman and FReep them for all his great, great, great, great, great grandchildren.
MSNBC - ringing off the hook!
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