But apparently Gen. David Petraeus didn't get the memo.

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David Kurtz @ TPM:

Maybe John McCain gets his foreign policy briefings from CNN, or maybe it's vice versa. In any event, CNN's Kyra Phillips was interviewing Gen. David Petraeus today and repeated McCain's gaffe from yesterday, touting a connection between Iran and al Qaeda in Iraq. Later in the interview, Petraeus gently corrected her, noting that Syria is typically the path for weapons and fighters for AQ

Partial transcript after the jump:

Phillips: ... The Bush administration has referred to Iran as the axis of evil, but it stands firm that Iran is funneling weapons and supporting al Qaeda and supporting the insurgency. Was it a slap in the face to Americans -- the fact that the Iranian president came here to Iraqi soil when you and other US troops are trying to rebuild this country, and trying to end terrorism in this country?

Petraeus: No again, I think it's very natural that Iraq should try to deal with its neighbors. .....

Phillips: Would you support a war in Iran?

Petraeus: Well, first of all (laughs) that's not a question that I would deal with at all, and I'm worried about Iraq. That's what our focus is on. We certainly are concerned ...

Phillips: But clearly the influence of Iran is huge here.

Petraeus: We are concerned very much about the lethal excellerants as they are called that do come from Iran and we appropriately raised that to those who have a broader perspective and who have a regional and then a global look in the same way we do about what comes through Syria. As you know the flow of foreign fighters and suicide bombers that help out al Qaeda typically is through Syria. ...

(emphasis mine)

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McCain gets his foreign policy-national security briefings from Kissinger and Kristol.

http://tinyurl.com/2nmauo

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Was she the CNN reporter that was on the flight deck when the US invaded, cheering on the jets as they took off?

OK, so George Dubya, the greatest and most stratergic mind since George Armstrong Custer, is on the point of total victory in Iraq, all that is left to the next prez is to wait for bin Laden to emerge from his cave, clean up Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, Afghanistan and Pakistan, while pausing the Surge in Iraq, and if anyone or any funds are left, fix up the homeland.

The corrupt news network strikes again. It's difficult getting the truth from any news outlet in the U.S. It's a good thing we have the internet and access to foreign news services and blogs. If it wasn't for these sources, the truth would be difficult to find.

Phillips, just another brainless asshat that thinks
lying will get her the 'Medal of Freedom'...or some
shit like that.

If Kyra is this anxious to fight a war with Iran citing Iranian support for Al-Quaeda perhaps she should get herself and her sons ready to go into another conundrum.

This reporter should be disciplined for pushing policy that even Patreus laughs at. Two wars in the middle east = too many lives, too many resources.
3=End of America as we know it.

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FACTS:
John McCain falsely claims that al Qaeda is in Iran. Is McCain making those false statements because he believes the same things his spiritual guide Rod Parsley and John Hagee, who both want American son's and daughters to invade Iran to "usher in Armageddon," believe. Yes, you read that right, Armageddon.

* McCain's spiritual guide, Rod Parsley said, "Israel must be defeated by a Russian-Arab military alliance, perhaps preceded by a U.S. invasion of Iran, in order to usher in Armageddon and the second coming of Jesus."

* John Hagee said, "The United States must be in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God's plan ... a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ."

Look, McCain actively sought and fought for the endorsement of both Hagee and Parsley.

McCain knew before he actively sought and fought for their endorsement that BOTH Hagee and Parsley have wanted for YEARS for America's sons and daughters to invade Iran to begin "rapture, tribulation and the second coming of Christ." McCain knew their desires of Armageddon for years now and in spite of what he knew, McCain sought their endorsement and he named Parsley his spiritual advisor.

I mean, it wasn't like they came to McCain. No, McCain went to them, met with them and broke bread with them. The whole while McCain knew, in advance, that both those men want the world to end and they want American sons & daughters to be the first ones at ground zero invading Iran.

Now, while I think they're both crackpots, what a SCARY thought if John McCain became president and his spiritual advisor wants to invade Iran to begin Armageddon. And John McCain is walking around lying about al Qaeda working with Iran. That is the same false scare tactic Bush used to invade Iraq.

John McCain either showed WAY BAD JUDGMENT or he wants to invade Iran to being Armageddon too.

No one can say McCain was having a senior moment when on March 20, 2008 McCain said, without a flinch and without correction, that Iran is working with al Qaeda. He had said that 4 times in 1 day prior to that only to be corrected all 4 times ... then finally the 5th time he said it he said it was TRUE, no corrections, no senior moment. It was a deliberate untruth from McCain. Even the generals in Iran on the ground say al Qaeda is not working with Iran.

Does McCain have a hidden agenda to lead Armageddon? I am not sure America is safe with a President who thinks like that.

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cacamaymee
notreally
news

Today's journalism, if you want to call it that, is just a hollow shell of what it once was.
Thier journalist are generally lazy, don't do their homework and just spout off whatever the latest 'talking points' are. CNN is a typical example, any high school student could do a more compentent job of reporting. But why bother today, when the media's only job is to parrot what the latest administration's pundits tell them. As a matter of fact, CNN and the rest of them could save a lot of money if they replaced their talking heads with a bunch of parrots. They do the same 'job', and at least parrots are tolerable.

Does this surprise you? She has never let a little thing like objectivity stand between her and shilling for the Bush administration.

Wow, what a maroon.

Iran = Shia & Persian.

Al-Qaida = Sunni & Arab.

The worst insult you can tell a Persian is to call him an Arab.

Osama Bin Laden considers Shias to be an even more abominable aberration than the Great Satan, aka the USA.

But sure, a fucking ignorant jackass American politician sed the two must be in cahoots, so it must be true...

For the love of...(kool-aid ?)... dont you have to be in SOME WAY qualified/informed to represent a mojor news outlet (by default that excludes the FNC, so hush up)? Why cant these dip-shits differentiate between shiite and sunni ? This Iran and Al qaeda hug-fest is almost as believable as the pope having invited martin luther to the vatican for a tea party.

I'm glad I stopped watching CNN. I blocked FoxNews a long time ago and with crap like this I'm about to do the same with CNN.

jdw @ 10:

Today's journalism, if you want to call it that, is just a hollow shell of what it once was.
Thier journalist are generally lazy, don't do their homework and just spout off whatever the latest 'talking points' are. CNN is a typical example, any high school student could do a more compentent job of reporting. But why bother today, when the media's only job is to parrot what the latest administration's pundits tell them. As a matter of fact, CNN and the rest of them could save a lot of money if they replaced their talking heads with a bunch of parrots. They do the same 'job', and at least parrots are tolerable.

The main problem is that the media is sending communication majors to do the job of a journalist.

ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 3:

Was she the CNN reporter that was on the flight deck when the US invaded, cheering on the jets as they took off?

Yes

Kyra is positioning herself for a big offer from Fox News.

Again, why is this news? Two idiots have made the same mistake (McCain and Phillips), but that's not enough. This has to be "perpetuating a lie". Use your brain for a second. Not everything is a conspiracy. McCain is a senile old man who should not be listened to. Phillips is either misinformed or stupid - neither of which would make her unique in the MSM.

RHM

McCain is planning on bombing the terrorist group Al-Abama to prevent an attack the terrorists have labeled "Crimson Tide". McCain didn't detail much but he said he knows, and it's been reported in the media, that members of Al-Abama have been seen training in the Southern United States, wear body armor and practice formation combat training which is evident of a large scale invasion.

As a Canadian I don't watch CNN, except I happened to be in a hotel in Hawaii in March of 2003 just as the Iraq war began. I noticed that when talking about 9/11 or the war in Iraq CNN always had backdrop photos of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein photos side by side, just as if they were partners. The impression was strong, and many people must have been hoodwinked by this subliminal strategy. CNN is obviously a way of delivering government propaganda to the American people. And they're still delivering i!

Of course, she's there to gin up the war! They've added a new element to "1984's" "perpetual war for perpetual peace," it's called "promote war to perpetuate profits" at CNN. Let's not forget how Wolf Blitzer and Peter Arnett made their names in Kuwait in 1991. She's just following the playbook for moving up at CNN.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Joseph Goebbels

CNN has no reporters IMO that know anything. Anyone with any knowledge has been long gone from CNN. They tend to get rid of anyone who might know what's going on. Didn't one date Rush? That should be a clue. CNN has no clout anymore. I stopped watching some time ago. Only tune in to see what Jack is up to now and then.

What a goof. What kind of questions are these? How dare does Iraq have dialogue with Iran? Who is this woman? Even Petraeus was taken aback and but her in her place. Twice.

McCain and Phillips get their talking points from the White House. It seems the media in this country has sold its principles looooong ago.

Bill Moyers had Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro on the show last night. They produced a documentary called Body of War which will be showing in theaters in April. In the film they show how Congress and the media were repeating the WH talking points in the run up to the Iraq invasion.

It seems that little has changed. I don't know what it is, are people incapable of thinking for themselves or are they just too trusting in the commander in chief?

What gives?!

"As you know the flow of foreign fighters and suicide bombers that help out al Qaeda
is typically through Syria."--Petraeus

Another 'Bush/Cheney favorite' lie! It is a known fact that foreign fighters in Iraq
are coming up from Saudi Arabia...even the troops know this. Jesus, don't these
dumb fucks ever tire themselves by lying so much? How do they keep up and keep
track of so much bullshit?

The Dude @ 15:

jdw @ 10:

Today's journalism, if you want to call it that, is just a hollow shell of what it once was.
Thier journalist are generally lazy, don't do their homework and just spout off whatever the latest 'talking points' are. CNN is a typical example, any high school student could do a more compentent job of reporting. But why bother today, when the media's only job is to parrot what the latest administration's pundits tell them. As a matter of fact, CNN and the rest of them could save a lot of money if they replaced their talking heads with a bunch of parrots. They do the same 'job', and at least parrots are tolerable.

The main problem is that the media is sending communication majors to do the job of a journalist.

No offense, but I don't think the majority of them are even communications majors.

i saw this on cnn and wondered who had thier hand up kyras ass working her mouth,

A corporate news reporter in Army fatigues looks like fascism to me. They weren't even out on the battlefield.

This is the classic "let's tell two lies so one will stick". This is no proof of Iran training any terrorists, Al-queda or insurgents. If we had proof we would have brought it to the UN for more sanctions. Just like the BS proof we had of WMD's in Iraq, Bush is trying to start another war with Iran.

BUSH HAS NO PROOF AND IS LYING!

Barbara in BC @ 20:

As a Canadian I don't watch CNN, except I happened to be in a hotel in Hawaii in March of 2003 just as the Iraq war began. I noticed that when talking about 9/11 or the war in Iraq CNN always had backdrop photos of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein photos side by side, just as if they were partners. The impression was strong, and many people must have been hoodwinked by this subliminal strategy. CNN is obviously a way of delivering government propaganda to the American people. And they're still delivering i!

Fer chrissakes, Canada, would you please invade us? I'll salute you at the border with a mug of Labatts if you'll just come down and get rid of the numbnuts in the White House. I'm beggin' ya!

Kyra Phillips is not smart enough to lie her way into a medal of freedom (or whatever type of award she might tend to covet). If she was that smart, she'd realize that Sunnis and Shias are different animals, just as Persians and Arabs are different animals.

What we have here is a pack of handi-tards running the cable and network news outlets. That goes for CNN, Fox, MSNBC (as witness Tweety, for example), CBS, ABC, NBC, etc. BBC still offers some Real News, but you have to send out a search party to locate it on your dial.

This is just wrong on so many levels...

L.A. Confidential @ 16:

ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 3:

Was she the CNN reporter that was on the flight deck when the US invaded, cheering on the jets as they took off?

Yes

I thought so. Watched it and wife looked at me and said "is she like 3 years old?"

Anybody else notice how THIS IS THE LONGEST QUESTION IN HISTORY OF TELEVISION INTERVIEWS.

Kyra, the Playboy bunny propagandist:
"IRAN is a tremendous problem in this country, (...) Iranian president came here (...) this is not someone you would want to shake hands with and look in the eye; the bush administration has referred to IRAN as the axis of evil, BUT IT STANDS FIRM THAT IRAN IS FUNNELING WEAPONS AND SUPPORTING AL KAIDA AND SUPPORTING THE INSURGENCY;
(short pause)
WOULD YOU SUPPORT THE WAR IN IRAN?"

The longest question asked in TV "journalism" history!

WHAT THE F**K KIND OF JOURNALISM IS THIS? WHY WOULD A US ARMY GENERAL BE INVITED TO A MEETING BETWEEN IRANIAN AND IRAQI POLITICIANS?

Why wouldn't he shake Ahmadinejad's hand and look him in the eye? What, is the Iranian president a medusa, greek mythology creature?

It STANDS FIRM that Iran supplies al Kaida and insurgency in Iraq?
Where does it stand firm - in AIPAC, PNAC and AEI "think tanks", where people masturbate to the thought that American soldiers will die in yet another war for that "small Middle Eastern country" which shall not be named?

Whenever I hear Kyra Phillips name, I'm reminded of what is probably the most shameful moment in the history of journalism, when she asks the doctor of the little Iraqi boy who lost both arms, both parents, and was horribly burned as a result of the initial U.S. bombing runs: "Doctor, does he understand why this war took place? Has he talked about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the meaning. Does he understand it?"

Why does this vile excuse for a human being still have a journalism job?

McCain and his media sycophants use qualifiers such as "it's documented," "it's well known," "it's been established" whenever they make things up. And when people believe their lies, they say "every one had the same intelligence."

Can we expect to hear Kyra give an apology for her ignorance of will it be business as usual?

My theory: Bush and Cheney are supplying al-Qaeda to keep the war alive. You heard it here first.

Nice designer fatigues. I guess Kyra enjoyed those barbecue ribs and hotdogs at the McBush2ElectricBugaloo's.

Dana @ 26:

"As you know the flow of foreign fighters and suicide bombers that help out al Qaeda
is typically through Syria."--Petraeus

Another 'Bush/Cheney favorite' lie! It is a known fact that foreign fighters in Iraq
are coming up from Saudi Arabia...even the troops know this. Jesus, don't these
dumb fucks ever tire themselves by lying so much? How do they keep up and keep
track of so much bullshit?

Just to add to the point you made.....

What many seem to forget is that Iran not only sent its condolences to the U.S. in the days following 9/11, they held public vigils in solidarity with the U.S. and later helped U.S. forces fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.

And while the evidence that Iran is supporting the "insurgency" in Iraq is flimsy at best, it seems that the U.S. is quick to burn its bridges and turn on its allies in a heart beat.

I'm pretty sure the majority of Iranians would be more than happy to improve relations with the U.S. and put the toppling of their democracy in the 50s behind them, unfortunately those who are beating the drums of war against Iran don't necessarily have the U.S.'s best interests at heart.

Is Betrayus using his hands as an indicative of his appreciation for Phillips mammaries?

Kyra's about as sharp as a marble.

The General pointed out that Syria is supporting Alqaeda, not Iran, but hey why bother with the facts as a journalist? Is much better to keep repeating Bushie talking points cause attacking Iran is sure to boost all the 'nooze' ratings through the roof.

CNN, Fox and the rest of em are just cheerleaders for the Bushie wars. The more war the better. Who cares what the facts are? Who cares about the thousands of people we slaughtered carpet bombing baghdad? Who cares that they hate us for killing their mothers, children and friends? Who cares that there were no weapons of mass destruction? Who cares that the 'mushroom clouds' were meant to scare us into supporting the slaughter? Who cares that Iraq has never attacked us? Who cares if the Bushies monitor our phone calls like prisons monitoer inmates? Who cares if our government tortures prisoners the way nazis did? Who cares if the rest of the world is shocked by our behaviour? Who cares that we as a nation claim to be followers of Jesus? Who cares that we drown the streets in blood by bombing people into freedom? Who cares if we occupy a country for a hundred years while we let America and it's bridges collapse? Who really fucking cares anymore?

Not CNN, Not politicians and apparantly not the citizens whom are too busy watching american idol than to pay attention to american massecre.

I'm sure Jesus has given us his blessing of peace to all and turn the other cheeck or maybe not.

Geez. It's like CNN wants a war with Iran to boost their ratings. They've tried this before.

Barbara in BC @ 20:

As a Canadian I don't watch CNN, except I happened to be in a hotel in Hawaii in March of 2003 just as the Iraq war began. I noticed that when talking about 9/11 or the war in Iraq CNN always had backdrop photos of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein photos side by side, just as if they were partners. The impression was strong, and many people must have been hoodwinked by this subliminal strategy. CNN is obviously a way of delivering government propaganda to the American people. And they're still delivering i!

And they are devilishly good at it because all the focus is on Faux Noise as the propaganda makers. CNN and MSNBC slip under the radar like the corporate War Party snakes they are.

Petraeus: ...As you know the flow of foreign fighters and suicide bombers that help out al Qaeda typically is through Syria. …

And doesn't Syria have all of Saddam's non-existent WMD too? I love the CNN banner underneath noting the number of US troops killed is now about 4,000. Actually, it's probably much higher than that if you count Blackwater and other privatized troops, whom we're also paying. It helps hide the amounts of money being spent and the number of deaths if you're unaccountable to anyone.

What I'd like to ask Bush is how is it possible that Syria cooperated with the CIA's rendition program and did the dirty work for the CIA in torturing suspects, yet here we are calling Syria the "axis of evil" while working with them behind the scenes?

Leslie @ 46:

Petraeus: ...As you know the flow of foreign fighters and suicide bombers that help out al Qaeda typically is through Syria. …

And doesn't Syria have all of Saddam's non-existent WMD too? I love the CNN banner underneath noting the number of US troops killed is now about 4,000. Actually, it's probably much higher than that if you count Blackwater and other privatized troops, whom we're also paying. It helps hide the amounts of money being spent and the number of deaths if you're unaccountable to anyone.

Blackwater mercenaries aren't necessarily all American, many are from south America and other parts of the world, as well.

Thank you, thank you, for calling it a lie.

Iran is the new Saddam, and is linked to Al-Queda and is an immanent WMD threat. That is the new big lie meme the war whores are using to infect public perception and opinion. It worked before. Why not again?

As I researched about Kyra Phillips for my blog, I came upon this gem:

Kyra Phillips was criticised for her perceived insensitivity during an April 16, 2003 interview with Dr Imad al-Najada, the doctor of Ali Ismail Abbas, a 12-year-old boy who lost 15 relatives and both arms when a US missile hit his home in Baghdad. Joan Walsh, news editor of Salon.com, wrote:

"CNN hit rock bottom on Wednesday morning, when anchor Kyra Phillips interviewed Ali's doctor in Kuwait, Dr Imad al- Najada explained that, although Ali told reporters he was grateful for his treatment, he also hopes no other 'children in the war will suffer like what he suffered'. Phillips seemed shocked by Ali's apparent inability to understand we were only trying to help him. 'Doctor, does he understand why this war took place? Has he talked about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the meaning. Does he understand it?'"

Just... WOW.
Playboy bunny pro-war cheerleader.

Journalist, indeed!

I wonder what's going to become of BetrayUs once Bush leaves the White House. Will he still have a job pandering? Or will the next president sack him and shame him for the puppet that he is?

americangoy @ 51:

As I researched about Kyra Phillips for my blog, I came upon this gem:

Kyra Phillips was criticised for her perceived insensitivity during an April 16, 2003 interview with Dr Imad al-Najada, the doctor of Ali Ismail Abbas, a 12-year-old boy who lost 15 relatives and both arms when a US missile hit his home in Baghdad. Joan Walsh, news editor of Salon.com, wrote:

"CNN hit rock bottom on Wednesday morning, when anchor Kyra Phillips interviewed Ali's doctor in Kuwait, Dr Imad al- Najada explained that, although Ali told reporters he was grateful for his treatment, he also hopes no other 'children in the war will suffer like what he suffered'. Phillips seemed shocked by Ali's apparent inability to understand we were only trying to help him. 'Doctor, does he understand why this war took place? Has he talked about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the meaning. Does he understand it?'"

Just... WOW.
Playboy bunny pro-war cheerleader.

Journalist, indeed!

Thanks for posting this. It's disgusting to think people like her have a place on TV.
Operation Iraqi Freedom my ass.

I posted this on an earlier thread, but it was on last night and looking back to when it happened, it is completely shocking to relive it.

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/lies/video.html
THE LIES THAT LED TO WAR

Too many pretty faces doing hard-news reporting... It doesn't matter much if you get the facts wrong about Brittany's latest meltdown or the name of Jlows baby but when you are talking about how the public might perceive this life and death battle you gotta get it right... It's pretty hard to understand how a reporter could make this flub after the uproar that followed McCain's recent mistake on this very same topic... and a CNN report at that... If it had happened on Fox, I'd never have noticed it along with most other thinking Americans...

liberAL @ 23:

CNN has no reporters IMO that know anything. Anyone with any knowledge has been long gone from CNN. They tend to get rid of anyone who might know what's going on. Didn't one date Rush? That should be a clue. CNN has no clout anymore. I stopped watching some time ago. Only tune in to see what Jack is up to now and then.

I do have to give props to CNN War Correspondent Michael Ware. He's a good one.

CNN should not and does not matter. We are, after all, talking about the channel that aired "Cross-Fire"... Perhaps it would matter even less if we elected politicians that didn't get us into messes like this in the first place (i.e. - a broad majority of Democrats in the Senate).

Where are they getting these idiot clones? Do they understand what they are doing when they perpetuate the lies?

This sleeze-bag journalists is asking all the RIGHT questions for the neocons.....it's just that Patreaus is a little too honest to play their bullshit game in front of a camera.

Damn her....along with the rest of her clones.

Uh oh. Hmm...THIS is odd...sorry for going off topic gang, but look what I discovered

The State Department investigation of improper computer access to passport records of three presidential candidates is focusing on one remaining employee — a contract worker with a company headed by an adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama

The third employee, who has not been fired, worked for The Analysis Corporation (TAC), which is headed by John O. Brennan, a former CIA agent who is an adviser to Mr. Obama's presidential campaign on intelligence and foreign policy.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080322/NATIO...

Whenever there is a pattern, one assumes the worst. there IS now an established pattern that has started pretty much coincided with Cheyney's visit to Israel. McCain's "gaffes" are NOT mistaken, but repeated deliberate attempts to sew into the sheeple's minds that the coming Iran war is justified. W've been through all this before exactly in the same way with Iraq and now it's Iran ready to go. Kyra Phillips, and there will be many more to come. Then the war that Cheyney and Israel want. Then we cluck our tongues after the damage is done and blame Hillary et al for the Kyle-Lieberman justification for war with Iran, outstretched military and it'll be all too late then. This when we have a recession, no money to wage anything, and no one is screaming bloody murder. To me the only hope is China warning the U.S. that if it invades Iran, the credit will stop overnight. Russia has also to be more forceful in warning the U.S. as well. But Bush of course doesn't care if there is a world war. He has said as much.

Another reason I don't need television "news". Is this supposed to be the "news I can trust"??? But the bimbo Kyra Phillips still has a job, and as long as she and her ilk are on television news, there is no reason that I should watch it. I don't need the crap.

Isn't this Kyra person the same one that blamed Nancy Pelosi for Katrina? Nancy got her told off that day and accused her of working for the White House. I haven't watched her since. I believe it is the same person.

Thats' not journalism, it's shameful

The media is in bed with the military.

Journalist wearing fatigues? Warmongering like soldiers fresh out of boot camp. Might as well give them guns too.

Al @ 4:

OK, so George Dubya, the greatest and most stratergic mind since George Armstrong Custer, is on the point of total victory in Iraq, all that is left to the next prez is to wait for bin Laden to emerge from his cave, clean up Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, Afghanistan and Pakistan, while pausing the Surge in Iraq, and if anyone or any funds are left, fix up the homeland.

Hey, don't knock General Custer -- his only problem is that he went looking for a fight and he found one -- his famous last remark:
Holy Crap, 5,000 indians!

Why is Kyra dressed up like Fidel Castro??? In the desert????

Who was it who said recently: "The only thing we ever learn from our mistakes is that we never learn from our mistakes"?

One Foot in the Grave: Iran Attack Nearer, More Likely Than Most Suspect
Written by Chris Floyd
Saturday, 22 March 2008

A very important, very disturbing -- and almost entirely overlooked -- piece appeared on Juan Cole's Informed Comment site this week. It was a guest column by William R. Polk, laying out, in copious and convincing detail, the evidence indicating that the United States will indeed launch a military strike against Iran, most probably before George W. Bush leaves office.
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Polk is no radical firebrand; indeed, he comes toting heavy Establishment lumber: White House service (under John Kennedy), top academic and institutional posts, weighty books on history and international affairs, etc. Yet he paints as stark a picture of the situation as the most implacable dissident.
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One development that has arisen after the article was posted gives added credence to Polk's case. In recent days, both Bush and Dick Cheney have revived the scaremongering threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb that had seemed diffused by the NIE report earlier this year. Of course, that report -- in which America's myriad intelligence agencies declared their consensus view that Iran's nuclear weapons program is moribund -- was itself a more subtle piece of scaremongering. Because the report asserted -- without any credible evidence -- that Iran HAD been building a nuke until 2003. While the headlines focused on the overall conclusion, the Bush Administration made hay with that latter assertion: "See, we told you Iran has been building a nuclear weapon! We were right."

They weren't, of course, but this assertion was a propaganda weapon just waiting to be picked up: and now it has. Bush and Cheney refer to the NIE report as "proof" that Iran has been surreptitiously building nuclear weapons in the recent past -- and therefore could be secretly building them again right now. Cheney was very explicit about this during his recent tour of Iraq and other stops in the Middle East -- a trip that many have noted carries sinister echoes of a similar jaunt he made around the region just before the invasion of Iraq. As AP notes:

Vice President Dick Cheney retained his tough stance against Iran on Wednesday and said the U.S. is uncertain if Tehran has restarted the nuclear weaponization program that a U.S. intelligence report says it halted in 2003...Critics of the Bush administration said the report should dampen any campaign for a U.S. confrontation with Iran.

But Cheney that that while the NIE said Iran had a program to develop a nuclear warhead, it remains unclear if it has resumed that activity.

"What it (the NIE) says is that they have definitely had in the past a program to develop a nuclear warhead; that it would appear that they stopped that weaponization process in 2003. We don't know whether or not they've restarted," he said.

Bush too has been pushing this line, most recently in an interview with a government-funded Farsi-language radio station piping White House propaganda into Iran itself. As Dan Froomkin notes, Bush repeated the lie he has often told, asserting that Iran has "declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people." Iran has always declared the opposite, of course. Bush also echoed Cheney's provocative "mystficiation" about the current state of the alleged Iranian weapons program. As Bush put it: "They've hidden programs in the past and they may be hiding one now, who knows?"
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You must read Polk's entire piece to get the full weight and impact of the facts he marshals.
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read on:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1461/135/

Here´s the link to the guest column by William R. Polk:
http://www.juancole.com/2008/03/iran-danger-and-opportunity-polk-guest.html

I love hoe she echoes the Bush/Cheney re-imagining of why we went there to begin with

" trying to end terrorism in this country"

we introduced terrorism to Iraq.
There was no terrorism there before we invaded.

Nor was our goal to rebuild that country.

mystic @ 66:

Who was it who said recently: "The only thing we ever learn from our mistakes is that we never learn from our mistakes"?

I don't know, but I remember it as "The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.

dumb insidious c**t

Wow! John King pushing McCain talking points and now this. We the people cannot let McCain/Bush, CNN, FOX, and the MSM lie us into another war. Thank god for Bill, Maher, Olbermann, and Rachel Maddow. We have to continue to call the media out. Thank god we will have a convention in August and three debates in the GE, McCain will be called out by Obama.

Is this woman supposed to be a journalist? Her questions sounds like they came straight from Bushs propagandamachinery.

Wow what an idiot, MSM, thats how they enabled them to go to war Saddam+AQ=WMD

I don't know how many people have seen this but here is an interview from morning Joe with Brezezinski. insightful, powerful commentary.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1JGJAc5hg

I saw this earlier this week and I was disgusted.

She practically fawns over him like he's a rock star and pretty much pushes a war agenda.

CNN is worse than fox because people take CNN seriously. Everybody knows fox is a fucking joke.
But CNN is more about subtle propaganda than anything.

I gotta stop watching this station.

The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it. The problem that the administration and CNN, Fox and all the rest have is that the lies have become so formulaic and so numerous that they can't keep them straight in their own minds. They keep mixing up the villains and the victims. Of course that assumes that they took the time out from applying makeup and adjusting the lights to study the Who's Who of modern Terrorism in the first place. "Hey kids, I'm not a journalist but I play one on TeeVee!"

al-Qaeda-in-Iraq is planning on opening a Starbucks and a McDonald's in Baghdad by the end of the year with funding from Iran.
LINK

If we don’t fight them Here we will have to fight them There!
and vice versa!!!!

Watched "Why we fight" and they had a New Yorker that lost a son on 9/11. He was all for occupying Iraq, even wrote the Pentagon to name one of the bombs that missed and aborted children after his son.

Then he saw w spew Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and got mad and called w a liar.

"Why we fight" shows how easy it is to lie to the gullible masses, waste their lives and money, yet Americans still trust them.

They don't deserve our trust, they deserve justice.

If two foreign wars are not enough Kyra Phillips's bloody appetite, then I suggest she join the US Army, & pick up a friggin' rifle. The primary people who are in support of war in this nation are those who have never been in the military, & would never even consider joining. It's easy for people like Kyra Phillips to be a cheerleader for war, when she doesn't have to worry about her limbs being blown off, having traumatic brain injuries, or having to live the rest of her life being haunted by the horrors of war. It's people like her that spread hatred both in our nation, & beyond it's shores. She is so blood thirsty, that i wouldn't trust any children or small animals that can't fight back in her care.

Man, what are guys so pissed about? Just because she asks some questions doesn't mean she's pushing an agenda - any of you ever hear of "devils advocate"? Look at it this way - she asked some questions, and got Petraeus to contradict Mccain. The emphasis isn't on the questions asked, it's on the answers given. Sure, they do ask a lot of stupid questions, and they don't seem to be able to connect the dots any more than my 2 year old son, but I think more people need to look at stuff like this (from CNN, ABC, etc. not Fox) with an emphasis on the answer the question forced, not how the question agreed with this agenda or that agenda. Here she sounded like a cheerleader, but who comes out the loser because of her question? John Mccain.

A "reporter" dressed in military colors, pushing talk of war with Iran. Many of these people likely have past or current ties to the CIA like CNN's Anderson Cooper.

McDuff @ 52:

I wonder what's going to become of BetrayUs once Bush leaves the White House. Will he still have a job pandering? Or will the next president sack him and shame him for the puppet that he is?

nothings going to change!

a few thoughts.

It looks like they're on the set of a bad porn shoot. Seriously girlfriend, what is up with the costume? One wonders if she's wearing booty shorts and camouflage platforms.

Didn't this CNN chick see McCain get taken to the woodshed recently over the Iran/A.Q connection?

Since when does C&L post anything where Petraeus even seems like a reasonable human?

Mon dieu, has Jeff Gannon had an operation?

Softball question from a