|
|
|
 |
FreeRepublic , LLC PO BOX 9771 FRESNO, CA 93794
|
|
It is in the breaking news sidebar! |
|
Posted on 04/10/2003 11:11:41 AM PDT by sr4402
Recent quotes collected by the MRC's Rich Noyes, who provided some catchy headlines for them:
+ CPR For Dying Regime
“Within the United States there is growing challenge to President Bush about the conduct of the war and also opposition to the war. So our reports about civilian casualties here...help those who oppose the war....” “Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces....And I personally do not understand how that happened, because I’ve been here many times and in my commentaries on television I would tell the Americans about the determination of the Iraqi forces, the determination of the government, and the willingness to fight for their country. But me, and others who felt the same way, were not listened to by the Bush administration....” “Now America is re-appraising the battlefield, delaying the war, maybe a week, and re-writing the war plan. The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance now they are trying to write another war plan.” -- NBC/MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer correspondent Peter Arnett’s comments on Iraq’s state-controlled television, March 30.
* + Get Out the White Flags
“With every passing day, it is more evident that the failure to obtain permission from Turkey for American troops to cross its territory and open a northern front constituted a diplomatic debacle. With every passing day, it is more evident that the allies made two gross military misjudgments in concluding that coalition forces could safely bypass Basra and Nasiriya and that Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq would rise up against Saddam Hussein. Already, the commander of American ground forces in the war zone has conceded that the war that they are fighting is not the one they and their officers had foreseen. 'Shock and awe’ neither shocked nor awed.” -- R. W. Apple, Jr., in a March 30 news analysis in the New York Times.
+ Decrying the U.S. Military’s “Shameful, Medieval” Tactics
“Why didn’t the U.S. and British military develop some new tactics and strategies so that we could avoid this shameful situation where the people of Basra are besieged, where the people of Baghdad are besieged? Because you know, we talked about British and American blood being spilled here but for the long term security of the American people, to try to rebuild the image of the United States abroad, it’s how much Iraqi blood is spilled that really matters here. And there is too much civilian death going on here and the U.S. military flunked, flunked the test of devising a way to have an inside-out removal of this regime instead of setting up these almost medieval siege situations.”
-- History Channel host Arthur Kent, who covered the first Gulf War for NBC News, on CNN’s Larry King Live, April 5.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaresearch.org ...
|
|
|
|
|
FreeRepublic , LLC PO BOX 9771 FRESNO, CA 93794
|
|
It is in the breaking news sidebar! |
|
+ Iraqi citizens are preparing to go to the polls to decide whether Hussein stays in office.” -- Preview of an October 14, 2002 segment on CNN's American Morning with Paula Zahn posted on CNN's Web site.
* + “Seven years ago, when the last referendum took place, Saddam Hussein won 99.96 percent of the vote. Of course, it is impossible to say whether that's a true measure of the Iraqi people's feelings.” -- ABC's David Wright in Baghdad on ABC's World News Tonight, October 15, 2002.
+ “It's official, yet still unbelievable. Saddam Hussein re-elected to another seven-year term as President in a referendum where he got 100 percent of the vote! The celebrations were genuine, but already the validity of the vote is being questioned. The Bush administration dismissed the vote as not credible.” -- NBC's Keith Miller on the October 16 Today.
Crow A La King
I'll have mine raw thanks. HEHEHE!!!
I am not going to say it....I am not going to even think about saying it...
I glad their mom's locked them back up in the basement.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.