THIS WAR IS NOT WORKING (Arnett Already Writing in The Mirror!!!!)

The.mirror.co.ok ^ | 4/1/03 | Peter Arnett

[Eaker]

I think Peter should read up on Proposition 308.

Stay safe; stay armed,

[DCBar]

Like the thief who says he is sorry, Axis Arnett really is only sorry that he got caught and something bad happened to him. It is all about him, of course.

[Ruth A.]

I gave an impromptu interview to Iraqi television feeling that after four months of interviewing hundreds of them it was only professional courtesy to give them a few comments. That was my Waterloo - bang!

How many journalists really believe that professional courtesy requires them to give comments? Hubris supreme.

Again the media lets comments slip by. No one said that internal rebellion would be easy, hence the extend dropping of instructions. I, who am no where near the shoelace of a famous , experienced reporter, was afraid that these people would not vote with their feet. They have been in subjugation so long that the idea of liberty is foreign to them. Until we had the reports of the wrath of Saddam from the first Gulf War, I had no idea of the bravery required of the Iraqi people to welcome the troops.

Did the military really ever give out a timetable for the war? That seems unimaginable. Who would even talk of the best case scenario--except the press. There is not Plan A and Plan B, but instead different stages of the war.

Peter Arnett should stay in Baghdad or go to France.

[1 spark]

The US and British want to come here, take over the city, upturn the government and take us through to a new era. The troops are in the country and fighting there way up here. It creates a very different atmosphere.

Adding to the slip, the renowned journalist misspelled "their".

[Diogenesis]

Arnett's trustworthiness:

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[Finny]

"Bald Matt" Lauer -- my husband calls him "Possum Head." He does bear a striking resemblance to a possum, doesn't he??

[VeniVidiVici]

Peter's found a home. His style of writing is not left-wing enough for the Mirror so far. Wonder if they'll sack 'em :-)

[dawn53]

The US and British want to come here, take over the city, upturn the government and take us through to a new era

Exactly who is Arnett referring to with the word "us"?

[swheats]

Thanks for the link. He needs to be gagged and returned to America and made to view the war on FOX instead of writing about it. That's just for starters.

[Eaker]

He's Baaaaaaaaaack................

Stay safe; stay armed.

[Delta 21]

So true.

I bet a lot of other reporters wish they were privy to the Coalition war plans so they could report to the world when we are falling behind.

This is what happens when the reporter takes what he says too seriously.

90% of all the war coverage out there is all the other reporters reporting on what another reporter has reported that he heard some one else say. Pure speculation of unsubstantiated rumors made up by people who only speek on condition of annonimity.

[JoeSixPack1]

I came to Baghdad with my crew because the Iraqi side needs to be heard too.

There is no Iraqi side Pete, you moron. It's a dictatorship. The Iraqi side is whatever Saddam INsane sez it is.

[ladysusan]

Neither did the editor catch it. He (and they) are pretty shook up - that's how I would read the slip and spelling error.

[Blue Screen of Death]

I wonder if Peter Arnett and Robert Fisk will be sharing a room in Baghdad? They would make a lovely couple. Bottoms up, old chap and all that.

[Fzob]

I doubt it. But it seems these totalitarian dictator types tend to believe half of the nonsense they spout.

[Brian Allen]

<< ..... I don't believe he is deliberately lying. He is simply delisional, a victim of his own Fantasy Ideology ..... >>

I'm with you. Arnett is pathologically delusional.

Terminally psychotic.

AND [No less efficatiously for all of the above!] a bloody traitor!

He'll be among friends at Maxwell's Mirror.

[surrey]

This cretin took an oath to become a naturalized citizen. He hasn't abided by that oath....yank his citizenship and deny him re-entry to the USA! I hear he lives in cushy McLean, VA. Send him back to sheep country

[ladysusan]

Is that the way it is? ;-D

[mountaineer]

My gosh, what a truly awful writer he is!

[Howlin]

90% of all the war coverage out there is all the other reporters reporting on what another reporter has reported that he heard some one else say. Pure speculation of unsubstantiated rumors made up by people who only speek on condition of annonimity.

As far as I can tell, we here on FR have a better batting average than most of them do; and when we all give an opinion that's wrong, somebody comes along to correct us.