9 am hour on MSNBC and they returned to live news coverage. Oh shoot, I was looking forward to their Headliners and Legends replay on the life and times of Raquel Welch. just kidding about Welch, but they did Chris Rock bio earlier, so anything is possible on this big news Sunday.
And OH How cute! Alex Whitt (sp) the (usually competent) MSNBC anchorette, hand-wrings to Newsweek's Middle East reporter, Christopher Dickey, about Lebanon. She says to Dickey,
"it's going to get worse before it gets worse".
Yes she said it. I think she deserves some kind of award for "cute".
But why wouldn't she be dreaming up super duper negative comments? Dickey just told her Bush has been AWOL in Lebanon, not coming up with a plan, ignoring the problem, in other words, it's all Bush's fault, in Dickey Newsweek speak.
CNN 9:40 am
Barbara Starr CNN Pentagon reporter, says plans are being made to evacuate Americans, but keep in mind, all 25,000 Americans won't want to leave. Starr says if American soldiers go in to Lebanon, they will want to be "in and out" as quickly as possible.
Starr clarifies, the State Dept is in charge of an operation like this. The Ambassador on the ground makes the decision to remove Embassy employees, and the State Dept requests the Pentagon to make plans to extricate citizens. She makes clear, the Pentagon acts at the request of the State Dept. The plan right now is to remove American citizens to Cypress and put them on civilian planes for home.
"The team has arrived in Lebanon to plan the evacuation of Americans", according to CNN news crawl.