Fox News Sunday Airs “What We’ve Accomplished” in Iraq Segment

MRC ^ | 5/10/04 | Brent Baker

[logician2u]

Deb must be gone for the day. She normally replies to these kind of challenges, if only to lob an insult.

It will become apparent in a few short years, I think, that U.S. military actions in Vietnam, Panama, Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Haiti, even Iraq, were precitipated by not just big lies (eminent threats to national security, potential genocide, alleged attacks on American forces) but a number of small ones as well.

It could be the small lies -- the most believable at face value, and therefore the ones few journalists waste time to examine -- which tip the scales in the public mind toward war.

I'm thinking in particular of the Saddam-9/11 connection which is still believed by a majority of Fox News viewers.

If the administration has formally dismissed it a hundred times, it's still not enough as long as Cheney says, "There can be no doubt . . ."

[sheltonmac]

It could be the small lies -- the most believable at face value, and therefore the ones few journalists waste time to examine -- which tip the scales in the public mind toward war.

Good point.

[m1911]

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/07/26/us.iraq/
"Pentagon sources said this week's close call, in which a modified Iraqi surface-to-air missile exploded close enough to rattle a single-seat U.S. U-2 spy plane, is the latest of some two dozen attempts by Iraq to shoot down reconnaissance planes this year. "

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/archive/2002/wpost111602.htm
"Iraq fired yesterday on U.S. and British warplanes patrolling a "no-fly" zone over the southern part of the country, confronting the Bush administration with its first test under the new U.N. resolution insisting Iraq disarm."

http://www.historyguy.com/no-fly_zone_war.html
"December 29, 1998
Iraqi missile batteries fired on U.S. aircraft over the northern "no-fly" zone.
The Allied warcraft returned fire and destroyed the Iraqi air-defense battery. "

That's just from the first page of a google search. Mind you, I had serious problems with the sovreignty implications of the no-fly zones to start with, but there were plenty of attacks on our planes.

[BillyCrockett]

The words president Bush has said over and over, is that the Iraqis will one day be our good friends...right there in the middle of the middle East. It looks as though it will happen. A MIGHTY GUTSY move by one US president!

[billbears]

ending the threat that weapons of mass destruction will be developed and used

Didn't miss it all. I also noted that it was down the list. Since the weapons were not found either they are still a threat, meaning the troops didn't complete that mission, or they never existed in the first place as we were told in pushing for support in this latest act of the WOST

[m1911]

I meant the previous post for you.

[johnb838]

How Ironic! We went to Iraq based on our National Interests. Clinton went to Kosovo based on his Personal Interests. Bout sums Clinton up, doesn't it?

[lawnguy]

Even more important than the substance of this report, is the inherent fairness that it takes to run it. This is what so many of us consider balance, and it is almost absent in most press outlets.

If someone wants a reason from me why Fox news is #1, I will show them this transcript.

[Coop]

Hope you all got to see this special. Very informative, and really amazing when you look at everything accomplished.

[My2Cents]

The moral of the story: Democrats only support wars meant to cover-up the misdeeds of their own Presidents.

[Deb]

Everyone paying attention knows WMD were used because that was the main violation of UN offenses. It was not the main reason given by Bush in his State of the Union speech. You're just parroting what has become conventional wisdom in the Democrat dominated press. Try thinking for yourself.

I repeat...Clinton went to war to wag the dog away from Monica and impeachment. At no other times did he care about human rights around the World. Let me amend that to include one other time when Clinton paid off the Congressional Black Congress for defending him during the Whitewater hearings by deposing Haitian leader General Cedros, who never fired a shot against us either, and reinstating the Marxist Aristide to power.

We also denounced him for that one.

Your point and your arguments are bogus. Clinton was and is a corrupt ex-govenor from a tiny one-party state, who accidentally became president because of the arrogance of H. Ross Perot. Bush is a man of his word, who is the only world leader to step up and attempt to do something about Islamic terrorism. Part of that included denying them a haven in Iraq (the mastermind of the first twin towers attack was Iraqi and returned there after the bombing) and financing (Saddam paid Palestinian suicide bomber's families $25,000 a piece).

[proud American in Canada]

thanks for posting this.

I missed the show b/c of MOther's day--I completely forgot.

Fox News should re-air it sometime. I'm sure I wasn't alone.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the post, pookie18.

Thanks for the ping, Coop.

Press has us so well trained we celebrate when one American news outlet reports the truth and honors our brave troops.

It's a beginning...

Thank goodness for FoxNews.

Successes of our troops are on record - readily available to anyone in the press (and the public)
through the net....

....over a year's worth - and many precious lives' ago.

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As promised, on Fox News Sunday, in reaction to Nightline’s April 30 listing of the names of those killed in Iraq, Chris Wallace delivered a “What We’ve Accomplished” segment on his program.

For the troops (ammo for the culture war - stubborn facts), ping!

[Deb]

Rumsfeld. Are you kidding?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

It lasted at total of 8 minutes.
15 minutes on Iraq prisoner abuse on 1st
Rest of time devoted to bashing the administration.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping! Meanwhile we have the "Mainstream Media " making these kinds of charges:

Editor of LA Times... Fox News is pseudo-journalism

[SAMWolf]

Good News Bump

[blackie]

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[windchime]

Bump!

[MEG33]

I heard it on the news.They would target us with radar lock on...it happened often.Sometimes they fired.