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  • "What ISIS Really Wants"

    02/16/2015 10:22:09 PM PST · by SMCC1 · 84 replies
    The Atlantic ^ | March 2015 | Graeme Wood
    "What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State’s appeal. “We have not defeated the idea,” he said. “We do not even understand the idea.” In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as...
  • Who Lost Fallujah?

    01/03/2008 6:29:07 AM PST · by jdm · 30 replies · 146+ views
    Captain's Quarters ^ | Jan. 03, 2008 | Ed Morrissey
    According to the Washington Times, the military reviewed the loss of Fallujah to Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda terrorists in 2004 to determine how the US lost control of the city. The Marine Corps should have beaten the terrorists in a straight up fight, but the Pentagon believes that the enemy had a lot of help from a surprising source -- surprising for everyone except those who watched it happen in real time: "The outcome of a purely military contest in Fallujah was always a foregone conclusion — coalition victory," read the assessment, prepared by analysts at the U.S. Army's National...
  • Dan Rather Praises Peter Arnett, Claims 'Most People' Believe His Story

    09/21/2007 11:57:10 AM PDT · by RatherBiased.com · 93 replies · 674+ views
    NewsBusters.org ^ | Rich Noyes
    On CNN’s Larry King Live Thursday night, Dan Rather insisted that his $70 million lawsuit against CBS was an attempt to save “our democracy” from “big government interference and intimidation in news;” claimed once again that his 2004 60 Minutes story on President Bush’s National Guard service was correct “and I think most people know by now that it was correct;” and charged that CBS’s investigation was “a fraud. It was a setup.” And when Larry King asked him about Peter Arnett — whose career at CNN ended over a fraudulent 1998 report alleging the U.S. murdered defectors and used...
  • To My Grandchildren: Be Proud

    07/11/2007 3:39:08 AM PDT · by PurpleMountains · 210+ views
    From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 7/11/07 | Purple Mountains
    To someone my age, grandchildren are terribly important because they represent the future. I’m writing this because I want to make sure that my grandchildren understand some things that will be very important to their future – and to their children's future. Any American who studies history – whether ancient history or recent history – should realize two major lessons from history: Lesson 1. You and I and the ordinary working person in this country have a quality of life that in most of the world has been available only to a very few, extremely wealthy persons of royalty. Of...
  • TO MY GRANDCHILDREN: BE PROUD

    07/11/2006 3:26:39 AM PDT · by PurpleMountains · 1 replies · 244+ views
    From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 7/11/06 | Purple Mountains
    Prior to our preemptive incursion into Iraq, I overheard my teenage grandchildren spouting multiculturalism nonsense they had been taught in school. I wrote them the following letter as part of an attempt to overcome this brainwashing. It provided the starting point to what has now developed into a weblog called "From Sea to Shining Sea" that I launched one year ago. I have decided to republish this piece each year in July.
  • Vanity Fair's Photo Finagling

    02/25/2006 7:31:48 AM PST · by george76 · 103 replies · 3,231+ views
    MIA Peter Arnett magically appears in Vietnam journo reunion pic In its December 2005 issue, Vanity Fair magazine manipulated a photograph to make it appear that veteran journalist Peter Arnett was among a group of war correspondents gathered on a teeming Ho Chi Minh City street during a reunion of the Vietnam press corps. In fact, according to a source familiar with the photo shoot, Arnett was not present when photographer Jonas Karlsson shot a group portrait of eight journalists last April. Instead, the former CNN star (who covered the war for the Associated Press) was subsequently photographed solo and...
  • Vainity Fair Fakes Photo of Peter Arnett, Vietnam Era Journalists

    02/02/2006 5:29:00 PM PST · by Mobile Vulgus · 6 replies · 796+ views
    Publius' Forum ^ | 2/2/06 | Warner Todd Huston
    Peter Arnett magically appears in Vietnam journo reunion pic FEBRUARY 2--In its December 2005 issue, Vanity Fair magazine manipulated a photograph to make it appear that veteran journalist Peter Arnett was among a group of war correspondents gathered on a teeming Ho Chi Minh City street during a reunion of the Vietnam press corps. In fact, according to a source familiar with the photo shoot, Arnett was not present when photographer Jonas Karlsson shot a group portrait of eight journalists last April. Once again the "smarter", more "civilized", and more "tolerant" MSM shows us their true stripes. TRUTH is...
  • TO MY GRANDCHILDREN: BE PROUD

    08/14/2005 3:45:08 AM PDT · by PurpleMountains · 225+ views
    From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 7/11/05 | Purple Mountains
    About four years ago, I became extremely disturbed at overhearing conversations my grandchildren were having at a large family gathering – conversations that were obviously being fueled by poisonous attitudes being inculcated in them about America by their public school teachers. I wrote them a letter as a first step in a campaign to try to undo the harm being done to them and to their country. That letter developed into an e-mail discussion group – and then into a weblog. To read the letter, go to my site and enter the words - to my grandchildren - in the...
  • Arnett Living in Baghdad, Describes Hussein as "Very Elegant"

    07/28/2005 9:07:21 AM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 28 replies · 1,518+ views
    MRC ^ | July 28, 2005 | BrentBaker
    Peter Arnett, who was dismissed as an NBC News correspondent after he went on Iraqi TV on March 30, 2003 to boost the Hussein regime's morale by insisting that "the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces" and so the U.S. was "re-writing the war plan. The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance," told Craig Ferguson on Tuesday night's Late Late Show on CBS that he decided to stay in Baghdad because he presumed the U.S. would win quickly. But "this war is going on much longer than I thought -- it's two years...
  • Saddam son 'was poised to topple dad'

    03/04/2005 6:59:45 AM PST · by robowombat · 23 replies · 873+ views
    Saddam son 'was poised to topple dad' From correspondents in Los Angeles 03-03-2005 From: Agence France-Presse THE eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was plotting to overthrow his father just as US troops advanced on Baghdad in March 2003, journalist Peter Arnett claimed in Playboy magazine. Uday Hussein, known for his ruthlessness and flashy lifestyle, had won the support of the leadership of his father's Fedayeen militia to overthrow Saddam's 35-year rule, according to an advance copy of the April edition of Playboy obtained by AFP. The controversial reporter, who was fired by the US Cable News Network in...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Peter Arnett Calls War in Iraq "Bush's Gulf of Tonkin"

    02/17/2005 8:15:05 PM PST · by unknownblogger · 7 replies · 379+ views
    The Unknown Blogger ^ | February 17,2005 | The Unknown Blogger
    This is the good stuff from a speaking engagement Peter Arnett had at West Virginia University: ...He seemed to tear up at first as he said that he had been "struck by the generosity of the local community." He then segued into one of his most partisan statements of the evening, which by itself does not signify bias, but does give insight into the mind of a veteran journalist. He said this as he talked about the Bush adminstration's war on terrorism (or as he perceived it, globalization): "If we could export West Virginian hospitality to the Iraqs of the...
  • Not So Unknown Anymore

    11/11/2004 5:55:13 PM PST · by unknownblogger · 189+ views
    The Unknown Blogger ^ | 11/11/2004 | The Unknown Blogger
    I sent the "Moving On From the MoveOn Era" post into the DA (www.da.wvu.edu) as a guest column shortly after I blogged it. Since all letters and guest columns are submitted without titles, they renamed it "Words of Wisdom to American Voters" and published it in the November 9 edition of the DA. I received calls and IMs from friends of mine saying how much they liked my column, and opinion editor Andy Barnes forwarded me a letter he received about it. The letter's author had many good things to say about my column, but what really got to me...
  • FREEP THIS VOTE: FREE REPUBLIC'S PETER ARNETT AWARDS

    04/30/2004 7:20:53 AM PDT · by kristinn · 106 replies · 261+ views
    FR nomination thread ^ | Friday, April 30, 2004 | Kristinn
    Your votes are needed to determine the winners of Free Republic's Peter Arnett Awards. The awards 'honor' those reporters, news organizations and public figures whose reporting and statements have given aid and comfort to the enemy and undermined morale in the war on terrorism like Mr. Arnett did last year with his infamous interview in Baghdad saying the Americans were losing the war against Saddam.The voting will remain open until 1 p.m. EDT, Saturday, May 1. Please cast your vote on this thread, or send it to me via freepmail if you're shy. Please select up to ten winners. The...
  • NOMINATIONS NEEDED: Free Republic's Peter Arnett Awards

    04/26/2004 8:02:21 PM PDT · by kristinn · 141 replies · 353+ views
    Monday, April 26, 2004 | Kristinn
    Nominations are requested for Free Republic's Peter Arnett Awards 'honoring' those reporters, news organizations and public figures whose reporting and statements have given aid and comfort to the enemy and undermined morale in the war on terrorism like Mr. Arnett did last year with his infamous interview in Baghdad saying the Americans were losing the war against Saddam.Nominations will be accepted until 6 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 28. Voting will commence later that evening with the cutoff time to be announced when the voting thread is posted.Please provide a source link or documentation where possible.A couple nominees to get things...
  • Pinko Reporter Peter Arnett Marries Much Younger Woman- PR Flak For Cigarette Company

    03/10/2004 9:40:28 AM PST · by MindBender26 · 8 replies · 354+ views
    email | Friends
    Former CNN newsman Peter Arnett, 69, fired for his pro-Saddam coverage of the Gulf War, married Molly Walsh, 43, in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, in a black-tie ceremony at Georgetown University's Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart. Walsh does PR for Altria, parent company of Philip Morris. So it's Ok for uber-liberal Arnett to be anti-everything American, but it's also Ok to take money from cancer-causing cigaretts.
  • Saddam's silent collaborators (Scott Ritter and CNN and Peter Arnett and the UN) Globe and Mail

    04/15/2003 9:17:36 PM PDT · by TLBSHOW · 7 replies · 229+ views
    Globe and Mail ^ | MARGARET WENTE
    Saddam's silent collaborators Last week, I learned there was a children's prison in Baghdad where they locked up the kids of parents deemed disloyal to the regime. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. As more and more information emerges about Saddam Hussein's Iraq, we're learning how awful it really was. Still, I was stunned. What kind of regime locks up and tortures children? In its scale and sadism, the regime's brutality went way beyond the cruelty of your average police state. It lasted for 20 years. Saddam's rule of terror ought to have sparked international outrage years ago. But...
  • Where's the Arab Street?

    04/14/2003 9:35:17 AM PDT · by FairOpinion · 14 replies · 171+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | April 14, 2003 | Washington Times Editorial
    <p>Former NBC correspondent Peter Arnett was sacked two weeks ago for going on Saddam's state-run television network and boasting about how the media's coverage fuels anti-war sentiment in America. Last week, CNN executive Eason Jordan revealed that his company deliberately covered up news of Iraqi brutality in order to keep its bureau in Baghdad. Just about every other news outlet relentlessly ran stories warning that the "Arab Street" would explode as a result of the U.S.-led war to liberate Iraq. As the war draws to a close, however, traffic on this street continues to flow more or less accident-free.</p>
  • CNNs of Commission

    04/14/2003 6:57:55 PM PDT · by Mia T · 17 replies · 808+ views
    The New York Times, CNN | 3.14.03 | Mia T
      Free Republic is one of those groups obsessed with the Clinton era. Word's out: Protest at Hillary's tonightU.S. News & World Report (Washington Whispers) | March 11, 2003 | Paul Bedard   I'll bet that Mr. Bedard is a member of "one of those groups" so "obsessed" with voting in… and having access to… the clintons that they--ooops-- failed to notice the obvious danger of the lovely couple. Thanx for 9/11, Paul... "ONE OF THOSE GROUPS OBSESSED WITH THE CLINTONS" THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDER Hear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992* hear *Thanx to Cloud William for text...
  • Israelis are Confused About Peter Arnett

    04/11/2003 6:25:38 AM PDT · by Alouette · 19 replies · 170+ views
    Israel National News (Arutz 7) ^ | Apr. 11, 2003 | Steven Plaut
    Israel´s leading journalists are totally confused. They simply do not understand this business about the canning of CNN´s Peter Arnett. After all, all that Arnett did was appear on TV and condemn his own country and openly, publicly support the enemy in time of war. That is all! You see, Israeli journalists find this so troubling because, for decades, the main function of Israeli journalists has been to denounce their own country and openly support the enemy in time of war. Their mantra is effectively: "The Enemy of Our Country, Right or Wrong!" Their role model has long been Lord...
  • Peter Arnett On Iraqi TV: The Syracuse Game Plan Has Failed

    04/11/2003 7:35:55 AM PDT · by Sir Gawain · 6 replies · 137+ views
    Peter Arnett On Iraqi TV: The Syracuse Game Plan Has Failed Posted by Anonymous on 2003/4/10 12:06:30 (11 reads) Baghdad - Mercenary reporter Peter Arnett continued his streak of placing his foot in his mouth on Wednesday by commenting on the NCAA National Championship in an appearance on Iraqi television. Arnett's stint as a commentator on the popular Al-Jazeera sports-talk show "Pardon the Fatwa" ended on a sad note when he stated his opinion that the Syracuse game plan was a total failure. According to Arnett, "Clearly, Jim Boeheim's game plan misjudged the determination of the Kansas Jayhawks. The first...