[Gothmog]

I'm betting this becomes the leftists' new attack line on Bush. She sounds exactly as 'saddened' as Daschle.

[mhking]

Figures.

[RightWhale]

Although these people might want to be in power, they are not. We are also not interested in how they would handle the situation since we are sure it would be at best the same as now, and probably worse. Vietnam was a Democrat war. Most wars are Democrat wars.

[reed_inthe_wind]

maybe if he said please, they would not have bombed.

[CONSERVE]

How many U.S. troops were lost in this bombing?
Who invited the U.N. back into Iraq?
Why should we defend those who do not defend us?

[Pubbie]

Hey ABC, The idiot Sergio de Mello was asked by the US military if they wanted to have US troops beef up security around the UN building but the UN in it's infinite stupidity refused the extra help:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/967348/posts

[Sender]

"This senseless intelligence failure
leaves me deeply saddened."

[My2Cents]

The mainstream media, as well as the left in general, isn't part of the solution; they are part of the problem.

[Caipirabob]

Who won the pool?

[Roughneck]

"ABC Reporter Suggests Bush To Blame For Bombing"

So, what else is new?

[goodnesswins]

Hay, Martha....how many people have been murdered in the past 6 months in CALIFORNIA and NEW YORK?.....idiot.

[My2Cents]

Someone needs to clue this media dolt that this is part of the strategery...Here's what Mark Steyn said about "Bring it on!" a couple of weeks ago --

The rhetoric may be macho, but it isn’t necessarily phoney. Indeed, its authenticity is what strikes a chord with the American people. In these pages in November 2001, I noted various California commuters’ reactions to the governor’s announcement that terrorists were planning to blow up the state’s major bridges. The TV cameras positioned themselves at the Golden Gate Bridge to measure the downturn in traffic, only to be confronted by drivers yelling, ‘Come and get me, Osama!’ More to the point, Bush’s bring-’em-on is not just macho swagger, but the core of the strategy. My distinguished former colleague, the dean of Canadian columnists David Warren, brilliantly characterised what’s going on in Iraq as ‘carefully hung flypaper’. In other words, the US occupation of Iraq is bringing Saudis and other Islamonutters out of the surrounding swamps — and that’s a good thing. If they’re really so eager to strike at the Great Satan, better they attack its soldiers in Iraq than its commuters on the Golden Gate Bridge.

And, whaddayaknow, they’re falling for it. On al-Arabiya TV in Dubai, an al-Qa’eda affiliate insisted they, and not Saddam, were behind the attacks in Iraq. ‘I swear by God no one from his followers carried out any jihad operations like he claims,’ chuntered the spokesterrorist. ‘They are a result of our brothers in jihad.’ Plenty of room for both on that flypaper, boys.

If Democrats are still so consumed by chad fever that they don’t get the basic soundness and success of this strategy, they’re heading for a bad fall in the election — and not just at the presidential level....

But tarring Bush as a liar won’t make him a loser. Step back and look at the two years since 11 September. In 2001, the Islamists killed thousands of Westerners in New York and Washington. In 2002, they killed hundreds of Westerners, but not in the West itself, only in jurisdictions like Bali. In 2003, they killed dozens — not Westerners, but their co-religionists in Morocco and Saudi Arabia. The Bush cordon sanitaire has been drawn tighter and tighter. Meanwhile, the allegedly explosive Arab street has been quieter than Acacia Gardens in Pinner on a Wednesday afternoon, and I wouldn’t bet that blowing up fellow Muslims and destroying the Moroccan tourist industry and Saudi investment will do anything for the recruitment drive. All of this could be set back by a massive terrorist attack on the US mainland, and if John Kerry is banking on disaster, that at least has a certain sick logic about it. But if he genuinely believes that Bush’s war is as disastrous as he says, he’s flipped, and the Dems will wind up as helplessly stuck to that flypaper as al-Qa’eda. Bush is doing what the lefties wanted: he’s addressing the ‘root causes’ — by returning the cause to its roots, and fixing it at source.

[mombonn]

She also blamed the power outage on him last week, said that FirstEnergy made big contributions to the Republicans.

Only heard her report it once, however.

[Lexington Green]

U.N. officials at the headquarters refused heavy security because the United Nations ``did not want a large American presence outside,'' said Salim Lone, the U.N. spokesman in Baghdad. AP today

[.cnI redruM]

Good propaganda and good headline fodder both make for terrible policy. I hope that people will tune this ignorant blather out.

[Petronski]

BOYCOTT DISNEY: a vortex of seductive evil™

[SunStar]

"Except for the recently built concrete wall, U.N. officials at the headquarters refused heavy security because the United Nations ``did not want a large American presence outside,'' said Salim Lone, the U.N. spokesman in Baghdad."

UN Officials Deliberately REFUSED U.S. Security in Baghdad "did not want American presence"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/967348/posts

[Petruchio]

Yup, Martha is a vile lefty.

And ugly too . . .

[Right_in_Virginia]

From the article~~~"But officials may now have to look at adding troops to the nearly 150,000 already there." (ABC News, Raddatz, 8/18/03)

Why? Do UN personnel now want to be seen in the company of American soldiers?

[CyberAnt]

Well .. it's going to be short-lived because FOX is all over the place saying that WE offered the UN more security and THEY TURNED IT DOWN - saying they did not want a USA presence there. Now, Kofi Annan has come out saying that if the UN did that, it was the wrong decision.

Also .. Rush was saying the same thing today. The issue is dead and ABC is wasting their breath.

[Saundra Duffy]

Oh, brother.