Peter Arnett praises Iraq Ministry of Truth

Yahoo News ^ | 3.30.2003 | Joe Flint

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This sounds like par for the course for the guy who fabricated such a vicious story that CNN had to fire him. (The story that I'm referring to is Operation Tailwind.)

[bart99]

Apparently, from what I'm hearing on Drudge now, this story will be on all the networks for analysis tomorrow.

I think I'll just listen to Drudge for the next couple hours. I saw Gibson's telecast of the interview (chunks of it) earlier.

Thanks.

[stands2reason]

Countdown to ZOT...10...9...8...

What are you going on about?

[Arkinsaw]

Arnett thinks he is Walter Crankcase version 2003.

[prisoner6]

This was posted at FARK.com and if you think we're blasting Petie boy here you should see them ripping into him there. To me that's significant because fark is ...ummm... more "edgie" than FR, and one would think it would attract folks a bit more sympathetic to the anti-war movement.

prisoner6

[henbane]

Yahoo didn't bother to tell what Arnett said to the Iraqis.

Guess they don't want to help get this guy strung up for treason.

Some channels--like Fox--are actually replaying the interview fairly regularly. Here's a few of his anti-American, pro-Saddam remarks.

"The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan," Arnett said. "Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces."

Arnett -- who is reporting for National Geographic Television and NBC News -- said President Bush is facing a "growing challenge" about the "conduct of the war" within the United States.

"President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly," he said.

Arnett said reports from Baghdad on civilians being killed are being shown in the United States, and "it helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments."

He added that "clearly this is a city that is disciplined, the population is responsive to the government's requirements of discipline," and "Iraqi friends tell me there is a growing sense of nationalism and resistance to what the United States and Britain is doing."

He said his reports "would tell the Americans about the determination of the Iraqi forces, the determination of the government and the willingness to fight for their country."

BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN?

[Travis McGee]

Put Baghdad Pete on the NTBK list with the other traitors.

[ru4liberty]

Predicted by NewsMax.com in November 2002

[skr]

I'm curous as to how other journalists view giving interviews to the enemy's propaganda machine.

[John D]

I say Boycott National Geographic

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Journalist Peter Arnett reports from Baghdad on NBC television Friday, March 28, 2003. In an interview broadcast by Iraqi TV Sunday, March 30, Arnett said that the American-led coalition's first war plan had failed because of Iraq's resistance, and that strategists are 'trying to write another war plan.' (AP Photo/NBC)

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[SandRat]

I believe that Propaganda Peter is a naturalized US Citizen. Pull his citizenship and let him figure out how to get back to New Zealand.