Christopher Dickey on CNN: It's Over, We've Already Lost In Iraq and Whole Arab World (BARF ALERT)

CNN Newsnight ^ | March 30, 2003 | Christopher Dickey / Aaron Brown

[Timesink]

AARON BROWN: We were talking about these forces that are coming into the region and whether they'll be there for a post war Iraq or whether they will be there to continue the war. This question of whether the war is on schedule or not seems to be dominating the news cycle these days. Is it on schedule? Are wars ever on schedule?

[Timesink]

Well, I guess that's it then. Let's just pack up and go home and wait for the inevitable repercussions.

[Voltage]

Did Aaron Brown nod off during the interview? He seems to be exhaused..for the last several years.

[Verginius Rufus]

This is all about one thing--hoping that Bush will be a failure so that the Democrats can reclaim the White House in the 2004 election. Apart from that, they don't care about Iraq.

Their hero Joseph Stalin might not have been so successful in rallying the Russians to fight the German invasion if the Germans had not been so brutal to the "inferior" Slavs in the regions they overran.

[WarSlut]

DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm confident that our troops will be successful and I think it will go relatively quickly.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Weeks, months.

CHENEY: But we can't count on that -- weeks rather than months.

Media leftists act as though this is some sort of "smoking gun". I must've missed the part where Chenye said "this will absolutely be over in under 11 days.

If it wasn't for Free Republic, I wouldn't know what CNN and Chinese Embassy bomber Wesley Clark were saying. Not that that's a bad thing. I'd rather hear it from y'all than hear it from those smug lowlifes.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Is it - it's one of the things that's different around here to be honest. - Honesty from CNN?

[WarSlut]

Chenye = Cheney. My apologies, Mr. Vice President.

[Diogenesis]

Well, this means we must give up, right?

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[GeneD]

I see from his bio that Mr. Dickey's also Newsweek's Paris bureau chief, and during the Gulf War as a reporter he "explained the Arab point of view."

We're talking experience.

[Timesink]

God, I love your name.

[Pokey78]

[Torie]

Your headline is phony, and much of what Brown says has some potential validity, except the bit that it would all be different if the UN (Security Council) had sanctioned it all. I don't think that would make a rat's ass of difference. The real point is despite all, we had to do this anyway. We had no other viable option. Sometimes all the options suck to varying degrees. One then has to pick the option with the lowest "suckness" quotient. That's life in the big city.

[mountaineer]

not so much CNN, but there are other American networks that make this sound like it's a football game and make it look like it's a video game.

I'd love to know which networks Mr. Dick, excuse me, Dickey, thinks he's watching for war coverage - MTV? Nickelodeon?

[freeperfromnj]

Did Aaron Brown nod off during the interview?

Last night he had this insufferable jerk from the History Channel on yelling that the U.S. will pay for the carnage we've inflicted on Iraq - accusing the U.S. of war crimes. CNN is worse than Al Jazeera. They go beyond freedom of the press. At this point they are clearly giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

[alloysteel]

OH NO! OH NO! We are LOSING! Not in control of Basra, how can we say we have made any progress? We must withdraw, NOW! The anti-war protesters were RIGHT! We may even cause some women and children to die, oh, why, WHY, did we ever come over here? Oh, the guilt, the guilt, I just can't STAND it!

Oil just isn't WORTH all this. If they would only stop, everybody could stop driving huge SUV's and simply dress warmer in the winter. We don't NEED the accursed oil.

[jimtorr]

Well, isn't Chris Dickey swell? Apparently he hasn't really noticed that Syria is the only neighbor of Iraq that doesn't quietly support this war.

Turkey allows overflights. Iran is still an enemy of Iraq and has imprisoned those Iraqi government and irregular troops who have fled there. The Saudis provide some basing and transit rights. The rest of the Gulf states are nearly all whole-heartedly behind the war.

Jordan has gone so far, so I've heard, as to allow British troops and possibly American as well to pass through Jordan to attack Iraq.

Russia talks loudly, but they know that Chechnyan rebels have been supported in some small way from Iraq.

[ampat]

Oh Newsweek. Now I understand.

[Timesink]

Your headline is phony

My headline isn't phony. It's perfectly acceptable to use whatever headline you want on a partial cut-and-paste of a much larger transcript, when using the headline tacked on by the 21-year-old FDCH transcriber, not anyone at CNN would not properly explain to the FR reader what the transcript is about.

And much of what Brown says has some potential validity...

I was unaware I was complaining about Aaron Brown.

[Torie]

I meant Dickey actually, not Brown. I don't like creative headlines unless they are labeled as such, or obvious from the context. Your headline made it seem like a quote from Dickey. It wasn't.

[Timesink]

Oil just isn't WORTH all this. If they would only stop, everybody could stop driving huge SUV's and simply dress warmer in the winter. We don't NEED the accursed oil.

An easy way to shut up TV news morons that start bitching about "oil": Remind them that videotape is made out of polyester, which is made from petroleum. Film? Petroleum. DVDs? Petroleum. Without oil, they couldn't exist.

[Fester Chugabrew]

NPR interviewed this guy last week. He fits the marbled mouthed, snooty agenda perfectly.