But apparently Gen. David Petraeus didn’t get the memo.
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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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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.
YouTube Video McCain, Iran, Parsley, Hagee CALL FOR “ARMAGEDDON”
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John McCain, Iran, Rod Parsley, John Hagee & Armageddon. Yes, Armageddon and their desire to invade Iran to begin Armageddon. Scenario and Details below.
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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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:
The main problem is that the media is sending communication majors to do the job of a journalist.
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 3:
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?!
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:
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:
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:
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:
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: