[OldFriend]

Nice to see Rummy setting the record straight. He must be completely fed up with all the bullship he's had to endure.

Waiting for Brooks to finally slam some of the idiot reporters in Dohar.

[Mo1]

Waiting for Brooks to finally slam some of the idiot reporters in Dohar.

I can't wait to see that

[Wright is right!]

"Nice to see Rummy setting the record straight. He must be completely fed up with all the bullship he's had to endure."

You should have seen his response to the fallacious question that led to one of the best reamings-out I've seen in years. Rummy leaped into action, his eyes glinting with fire as he wood-shedded the reporter mercilessly. He finished by telling the reporter that his question had been based upon a FALSE PREMISE. To his credit, the shamed, chastened reporter DID follow up with the question he should have asked in the first place without the loaded "still beating your wife" premise. And Rummy gave him a straight answer - "When the time is right."

The reason why reporters ask these loaded questions is that they've gotten away with the practice for so many years. That's changing. Rummy doesn't put up with such journalistic malfeasance.

Michael

[CyberAnt]

I heard something about Brooks saying to a reporter, "a person would have to be crazy to believe that". He was replying to the charge that we targeted the reporters on purpose.

Also ... a BBC (believe it or not) reporter has been investigating and his story is that in order for our tanks to have shot the reporters, the mortars would have had to GO AROUND THE CORNER OF THE BUILDING. He said that he saw the outside and inside damage of the building and there is no way it was from tank fire (insufficient damage). He also said that the damage to the room and outside on the balcony indicated bullets, not mortars, and intimated he thought Iraqi people had fired on the reporters who were on their balcony taking pictures of the Iraqi people.