It's beyond stinking, it's a public health hazard.
Posted on 05/14/2004 11:24:22 PM PDT by LifeTrek
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A British reporter says a U.S. journalist in Baghdad told him she wants to see more Iraqis die so President Bush will be thrown out of office in November.
Toby Harnden, Middle East correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, said he engaged in the conversation while taking a break by the pool at the Al-Hamra Hotel in the Iraqi capital.
In an opinion piece for the Spectator magazine of Britain, Harnden said at poolside he "was accosted by an American magazine journalist of serious accomplishment and impeccable liberal credentials."
The American journalist told Harnden she had been disturbed by his argument that Iraqis were better off now than under Saddam Hussein.
Harnden said he heard from her the usual "script" from antiwar activists, "no WMD, no 'imminent threat' (though the point was to deal with Saddam before such a threat could emerge), a diversion from the hunt for bin Laden, enraging the Arab world, etc."
But the American then came to her point, Hernden said.
"Not only had she 'known' the Iraq war would fail but she considered it essential that it did so because this would ensure that the 'evil' George W. Bush would no longer be running her country.
"Her editors back on the East Coast were giggling, she said, over what a disaster Iraq had turned out to be. 'Lots of us talk about how awful it would be if this worked out.'"
"Startled by her candor," said Herndon, "I asked whether thousands more dead Iraqis would be a good thing."
The British journalist said, "She nodded and mumbled something about Bush needing to go."
He then suggest to her that by this logic another Sept. 11 attack, on about Sept. 11, would be perfect for pushing up John Kerry's poll numbers.
"Well, that's different — that would be Americans," she said, haltingly, according to Harnden. "I guess I'm a bit of an isolationist."
In his column, Harnden then commented on the "moral degeneracy of these sentiments," concluding with:
"Whatever we thought about the war before it was launched, it is imperative that the forces of Arab nationalism and Islamism that now threaten to destroy Iraq are defeated. If America fails in Iraq it will be all of us in the West, not just Bush, who will suffer. But those who would be most in peril, of course, would be the Iraqis, who deserve better than to have their country treated as an electoral playground by the American Left or Right. To wish otherwise is as sick as the grins on the faces of the Abu Ghraib torturers."
I said this before, but I really hope this "supposed" 50/50 election is an American blowout, giving the anti-American Democrats a wake up call letting them know that Americans are sick of their tearing down everything in this country. Of course these media elite would be completely dumbfounded and at a loss for an explanation. DKK
The leftists hate the military just slightly less than they hate GW Bush.
Gail Sheeny from Vanity Fair? My guess because of remarks I heard her make on an anti war activist radio show from the Bay area a couple of weeks ago. This sounds like her.
This is despicable beyond belief, and these people are frightening me.
It's beyond stinking, it's a public health hazard.
WALL. BLINDFOLD. CIGARETTE (OPTIONAL).
Also remember, contributor to FOX news Ellen Rattner stated this prior to the war on Iraq. If the war goes well, it will be good for the President. If the war goes bad, which I hope, it will hurt the Pres.
Brit Hume asked her if she wanted the military to have a bad time. She said-well, I think he needs to go.
Gail Sheeny from Vanity Fair? My guess because of remarks I heard her make on an anti war activist radio show from the Bay area a couple of weeks ago. This sounds like her.
Could also sound like Dan Blather!
This caller was an American with a Brooklyn accent. I thought Savage was going to totally lose it. He asked for the guys name and address, so some Rangers and Marines could visit him, so he would get the chance to try to cut off their heads personally, if he could. THis screaming match went on for 3 or 4 minutes, back and forth.
An American on national radio, calling for the head chopping death of American soldiers,in a time of war. Unbelievable.
This country is heading for CW2 (or DW1) it's just a matter of time.
It's a time-honored punishment for straight-faced refusal to acknowledge the sentiments and desires of regular Americans.
Left: Tarring and feathering of a British exciseman by a Liberty Tree.
Right: A tax collector being tarred and feathered in 1774.
Unfortunately though, Nixon;s 1972 Electoral blowout did nothing to impede liberalisn. The liberals of today reached their formative years about the time of the 1972 landside.
If it comes to that, I am not worried.
Molon Labe
I guess Iraquis don't have the credentials to live on the Liberal plantation.
I'm a sports reporter for a major daily newspaper. Even most of the people in the prominent sports media, who probably don't know who the vice-president is, despise Bush and wish for almost anything that would end his presidency. Believe me, the major media boasts the most arrogant group of people in our culture. You'd be surprised at how stupid most of them are...The one thing they do realize...This nation is at a crossroads--will their anti-God, amoral, elitist worldview prevail, or the God-fearing worldview which most of us on Free Republic hold?
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