Katie Couric Wakes Up In Iraq
Well, well, well……(h/t – The Corner)
Greetings from Baghdad – Couric & Co. (Katie’s blog at CBS News.com)
We arrived at the airport this morning on a private plane. I was surprised to hear that there are now three Royal Jordanian flights into Baghdad every day. It was difficult to see much from the air … though I did see the Tigris River. The scope of the destruction can better be taken in at ground level. I had heard a great deal about the corkscrew landing into Baghdad airport, ostensibly to avoid being a clear target for SAMs, or surface-to-air missiles…. But the airport has gotten much more secure; we banked slightly, but it wasn’t nearly as jarring as I had anticipated.
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Later in the afternoon, we headed to the home of an Iraqi family to find out what day-to-day life is like for them.
The city looks like a third world country, where concrete reigns supreme: Concrete barriers and huge piles of concrete rubble everywhere. All the stores I saw were closed, some for good, some were not open because it was Friday, a holy day in Islam. There is a vehicle ban every Friday from eleven to three, so there were very few cars on the street.
The Iraqi family was warm and welcoming. Their apartment was small and extremely hot. They had no running water, as is often the case. They told us that their electricity is very spotty. They get only about an hour or two at the most from the national grid … more from the generator that is for their neighborhood, and then they have a small generator themselves, but fuel is very, very expensive.
They have three children … nine, seven and eight months, and the older boys looked dazed. It’s too dangerous for them to play outside. It was heartbreaking. The parents said they don’t blame it on U.S. forces, and said they hope American troops stay, because if they don’t, the “militias will kill everyone.”
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Meanwhile, all U.S. and Iraqi soldiers patrolling the streets have my renewed respect and appreciation. One-hundred-and-ten degrees with full-body armor and heavy uniforms. I don’t know how they do it. But they do, and we should be grateful.
Read the whole thing. As anyone who has read balanced accounts (and not made-up stories) of life on the ground in Iraq, it isn’t all roses & candy. But it does seem Ms. Couric has been believing too much of the Liberal Echo Chamber’s mantra.
Hmmmm…. I bet Walter “I Singlehandedly Ended Vietnam” Cronkite won’t be very happy with Katie’s contribution to showing America what is REALLY happening in Iraq these days.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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Pingback by Politics: 2008 HQ » Blog Archive » Katie Couric Wakes Up In Iraq — September 2, 2007 @ 9:01 am - September 2, 2007
Even though I despise Katie “The Perky One” Couric, I hope she stays safe in the Middle East.
And I also hope she realizes who is keeping her safe: THE US SOLDIERS.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — September 2, 2007 @ 11:49 am - September 2, 2007
Let’s just hope she stays out of the way and not make another pageant out herself. Our soldiers’s lives are already in enough of harms way without her.
Comment by Shawmut — September 2, 2007 @ 2:26 pm - September 2, 2007
The funny part is (funny ironic, not funny haha) that the mere fact that she even reported this honestly in this way is going to have her branded as a talking head for the vast right wing controlled media….
Blech.
Comment by Stout Republican — September 2, 2007 @ 5:13 pm - September 2, 2007
And now you have it. It’s all about Katie Couric. It’s not about a war, but for the backdrop. It’s not about our soldiers, but for a supporting cast. It’s a ‘Much Ado About Katie’.
Comment by Shawmut — September 2, 2007 @ 8:51 pm - September 2, 2007
Combat deaths decline in Iraq. Quoth Ed Morrissey, who in turn links both QandO, and an article from McClatchy news.
McClatchy says “The reasons aren’t clear”. Aren’t they? Teh surge is working. (Or actually, the new, harder tactics / strategy.)
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 3, 2007 @ 1:24 pm - September 3, 2007
In other jounalism news, Karma Catches Up with Smug Bush-Hating Reporter.
Comment by V the K — September 3, 2007 @ 4:04 pm - September 3, 2007
#6 – Of course, ILC, you wouldn’t know that from reading the NYT, now would you?? (Sarcasm)
Damn libtards.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — September 3, 2007 @ 9:23 pm - September 3, 2007
Selective comparison might make the present numbers look better, but it won’t change reality. US fatalities are charting exactly the same as they have each year of the war, with the only exception being that there are more this year.
Fatalities amongst US soldiers in Iraq have declined every summer of the war. (Too hot to fight?) Yet, more US soldiers were killed in June, July and August of this year than in any previous June, July or August of the war. Thus, summer 2007 has been the most violent summer of the war for US troops.
The real question then is will the violence increase once again as summer abates? With the numbers holding true thus far, showing nothing more than an up tick in violence over previous summers, I’d say it’s most likely, yes.
Therefore, it’s exceedingly misleading and dishonest to promote that US fatalities are declining because of the surge, yet not mention that every previous summer also saw a decline in US fatalities, as well.
But i guess, why start being honest now? The case for the war has been deceptive from the very beginning.
Comment by Chase — September 5, 2007 @ 10:31 am - September 5, 2007
But i guess, why start being honest now?
We don’t expect you to.
The case for the war has been deceptive from the very beginning.
As reality shows, the liberals have been nothing but deceptive to downright treasonous in their spin from the very beginning. Again, we don’t expect you to be honest anytime soon, if ever.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 5, 2007 @ 4:10 pm - September 5, 2007
LOL….what amuses me is how Democrats like Chase whine and scream about US casualties, but say nothing about the casualties of their “diplomacy”.
I think it very telling that Chase and his fellow Democrats would rather 500,000 Iraqi children alone — not counting the proportionate deaths among adults — die rather than risk “US casualties”.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — September 6, 2007 @ 12:33 am - September 6, 2007
#11
What’s half a million dead kids when our “allies” are getting kickbacks? That’s the liberal idea of “containment”.
Their all ignorant sand niggers to the left anyways.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 7, 2007 @ 3:28 am - September 7, 2007
Should have said “They’re”.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 7, 2007 @ 3:28 am - September 7, 2007