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Tariq Aziz Too Soft on Israel for Helen Thomas
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| April 29, 2001
| Brent Baker
Posted on 04/29/2003 5:01:36 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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I guess Helen was upset that Iraq was deprived of the weapons needed to nuke Israel. That thought pretty much ruined her dinner party.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:01:36 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
This is really pretty big news. While we knew the press was ultra leftist, this type of thing has been hidden from us for a long, long, time.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:19:41 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: PJ-Comix
Aziz's strong resemblance to the late British actor Peter Sellers
![](http://www.harpiesbizarre.com/castaway%20larry.jpg)
I'm thinking more "Larry" from "Bewitched".
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:21:05 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Mr. Avuncular)
To: PJ-Comix
I've joked many times about Iraqi, Palestinian, and radical Islamist talking points being written by American Leftists, but this would seem to seriously point to it being true in fact.
To: PJ-Comix
Never realized what a vicious anti-semite Helen has always been. Adds to her charm.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:24:36 AM PDT
by
friendly
To: friendly
That's because she is Palestinian by birth.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:27:16 AM PDT
by
carton253
(You are free to form your own opinions, but not your own facts.)
To: carton253
Amazing!!
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:30:45 AM PDT
by
friendly
To: carton253
I thought she was Lebanese. In any case, if she's more anti-Semitic that Tarik Aziz (he's the one who refused to answer a question from an Israeli reporter during his propaganda jaunt to the Vatican, remember?), she's even further out there than I realized.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:31:26 AM PDT
by
livius
(Let slip the cats of conjecture.)
To: livius
And what was that with Rowland Evans trying to give foreign policy advice to Aziz? I don't know much about Evans but wasn't he overstepping his bounds as a journalist?
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:34:54 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(A Person With No Sense Of Humor Is Someone Who Confuses The Irreverent With The Irrelevant)
To: livius; friendly
Heck... I'm not right. According to her official website she was born in Winchester, Kentucky. Then it is her parents who are Palestinian. I remember that from her autobiography.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:35:17 AM PDT
by
carton253
(You are free to form your own opinions, but not your own facts.)
To: dennisw
Take a look at what your girlfriend was up to.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:38:25 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(A Person With No Sense Of Humor Is Someone Who Confuses The Irreverent With The Irrelevant)
To: friendly
Zeig Heil Helen Thomas. Sorry, but the current President is not like your Furher Die Sinkmeister.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:40:53 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(!)
To: PJ-Comix
I don't know much about Evans but wasn't he overstepping his bounds as a journalist? It depends on the definition of journalist. I believe that it is now considered appropriate for a journalist to do the following:
1) Assist foreign leaders in destroying America's friends.
2) Reveal the location of American troops within a war zone (and where they will be in a few hours).
3) Remain silent when observing American troops approaching an ambush (this one is a point of contention -- older journalists like Peter Jennings adhere to this, but younger, embedded journalists, tend to disregard this one).
To: PJ-Comix
Poor Helen Thomas, on the outside she's unattractive and overwieght, but if you get past the surface, inside I'm sure she is ...even BUTT-UGLIER!
To: PJ-Comix
He was just explaining why the Iran-Iraq war was the most important issue in the Middle East when Rowland Evans, co-author of the famous Evans & Novak column, interrupted him. "You must not talk like that!" he lectured the startled Iraqi foreign minister. Evans instructed Aziz to tell the US government that the Arab-Israeli conflict was the Middle East's central issue and that the lack of peace was all Israel's fault. I guess we now know why Novak and Evans are able to work so effectively together.
To: carton253
There is nothing about Helen Thomas that is decent or honest. Or even humanoid.
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posted on
04/29/2003 6:39:34 AM PDT
by
friendly
To: ClearCase_guy
You suggest that embedded journalists tend to be a little more concerned about operational security.
During my recent adventure in Afghanistan, one of our teams was force-fed two embeds (a writer and a photographer) that accompanied them on a mounted patrol from Herat (IIRC) to Chagcharan, across some of the most God-forsaken terrain on Earth. No one knew what was out there and the only way to know the ground truth was to send Americans there.
The team was not thrilled to get these two guys, who came from the very liberal LA Times. Over the course of several weeks, though, damned if the mostly-Southern SF guys and the LA newsmen didn't, well, bond. The story wound up being a Page 1 story, on about December 28 or 29, and the photographs were, well, way better than the ones we shoot ourselves. The photographer burned all his digital photos on to CDs for the team, which he sure didn't have to do, and gave a copy to the unit's ops officer (I was there when he did it). The story told a lot of good stuff but the reporter was perfectly scrupulous about operational security and nothing that could have harmed the men, their families, or our ongoing operations, was printed. (For instance these reporters knew lots of personal details about the operators they were with, but printed only first names, military ranks, and very general homes: "Sergeant First Class Mike from southern Georgia...")
The newsmen brought their own stuff, and lived rough with the team, sleeping on the ground, eating MREs and local food (when offered), and attending to the call of nature by slipping behind some rocks with a shovel and a roll of TP in hand. When a HMMWV rolled over, imjuring one of the guys, they helped out. They never complained.
We had dreaded having the reporter with our guys, but after this some of our teams actually asked for them (with Iraq heating up, there weren't many interested in going with our teams into harm's way). Unfortunately the experiment won't be repeated because General McNeill has ordered that in the future anyone talking to reporters must provide full name, age, hometown, etc. and special ops people have lost their expectation of anonymity. Since we already had wives getting crank calls from antiwar zealots, a situation about which McNeill cared not a jot, we clammed up completely with the press after that.
It's a pity because our guys over there are doing great work, and the public deserves to know about it, and the one time we put a couple of left-liberal reporters with a gang of very conservative soldiers, they came away with considerable mutual respect.
Ah well, I think half our guys kept diaries... the books are just a matter of time.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
To: PJ-Comix
"Why didn't you retaliate" against Israel "when [it] destroyed your nuclear reactor?" When Aziz "tried to brush away the question," Jerusalem Post reporter Barry Rubin recalled, "Thomas did not find the response acceptable, 'Just yellow, I guess,' she complained." So Helen Thomas is not anti war, she is just anti war when the US government has a Republican president.
To: martin_fierro
Wow, amazing.
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posted on
04/29/2003 11:09:21 AM PDT
by
Marysecretary
(GOD is still in control!)
To: carton253
Really? I thought she was Jewish (well, they're related, that's probably why they can't get along.) Hmm. Learn something new every day here on FR!
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posted on
04/29/2003 11:10:23 AM PDT
by
Marysecretary
(GOD is still in control!)
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