Katie Couric Strikes Again in Iraq!
Jules Crittenden has more developing news on the Couric Awakening trend I spotted this weekend. Check it out: The Anti-Cronkite.
“We hear so much about things going bad, but real progress has been made there in terms of security and stability,” Couric said Tuesday. “I mean, obviously, infrastructure problems abound, but Sunnis and U.S. forces are working together. They banded together because they had a common enemy: al Qaeda.”
(GP Ed. Note - HEY, NANCY PELOSI and HARRY REID! Katie found Al Qaeda in Iraq fighting US forces!!!! This must be a bombshell for you both!!)
Couric traveled to the city of Fallujah in Anbar province, which U.S. forces entered in April 2003 and again in November 2004. That is the same city where, in house-to-house fighting, American forces uncovered nearly two-dozen torture chambers.
It is also the city where four American military contractors were set on fire, mutilated and hanged from a bridge by insurgents.
Now Fallujah is “considered a real role model of something working right in Iraq,” Couric said.
Jules reinforces what I said in my earlier post about Katie’s reporting from the war zone….
Cronkite made it acceptable to question Vietnam, to accept failure, and ultimately to abandon Vietnam, which at this late date, makes it acceptable to pretend there were no dire consequences for the United States, for millions of Southeast Asians. Couric, best known at CBS for a well-turned ankle, is now bucking convention by daring to say something good is happening there. It would be ironic if TV’s most famously lightweight anchor made it acceptable to think seriously about Iraq, our progress there, our prospects there, the consequences of abandonment there.
Courage, Katie.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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Pingback by Politics: 2008 HQ » Blog Archive » Katie Couric Strikes Again in Iraq! — September 5, 2007 @ 8:57 pm - September 5, 2007
Of course, it could also be that “TV’s most famously lightweight anchor” is simply proving the appellation fits. At least she had the balls to go to Baghdad unlike Commander Codpiece who sneaked onto a fortified remote airbase in sparsely populated Anbar. That base BTW, is affectionately referred to as “Camp Cupcake.” Perhaps we can retire the Commander Codpiece name and substitute “Commander Cupcake” instead! Yeah. I like it.
Comment by Ian S — September 5, 2007 @ 11:38 pm - September 5, 2007
Maybe she thinks a more positive presentation will bring back some of those lost viewers. It might just be a new marketing technique rather any advance in her comprehension. She’s a creature of the media establishment.
BDS much, Ian?
Comment by VinceTN — September 5, 2007 @ 11:55 pm - September 5, 2007
#3:
LOL! You got that right. Ultimately, it will be to no avail. There’ll be no silk purse out of the Iraqi fiasco. Nothing but sow’s ears for the GOP.
Comment by Ian S — September 6, 2007 @ 12:45 am - September 6, 2007
At least thats what youre hoping for. Your answer betrays your political motivations, since failure in Iraq will be “sow’s ears” for America, Iraq and the entire region, not just the GOP. But your entire party puts political power before country, national security, human life, honor, decency, honesty, the constitution, and pretty much anything and everything else…I certainly expect nothing less from you.
Comment by Will (American Elephant) — September 6, 2007 @ 1:46 am - September 6, 2007
Fiasco, Ian?
Bush went to Fallujah (remember that?) which USED to be a heavy AQ stronghold.
Even the retarded know that means that the surge is working and liberals are quaking in their boots because they know that today’s McGovernites will meet a similar fate.
But I’m sure you’re pi$$ed because there’s not enough dead soldiers for your spank bank.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 6, 2007 @ 1:49 am - September 6, 2007
#6:
When? I must have missed that. Gee, maybe he went one of our Potemkin markets over there. Even the Bushies have been forced to admit that the Iraqis haven’t even come close to meeting their benchmarks. Any effects of the escalation will be short-lived in the absence of a comprehensive political settlement. But you don’t have to worry, the hapless Dems are going to cave to Bush and we’ll still be floundering around in Iraq when Bush leaves the whole mess to the next President.
Comment by Ian S — September 6, 2007 @ 11:45 am - September 6, 2007
#7 - “Gee, maybe he went [sic] one of our Potemkin markets over there.”
Considering libtards fall for so-called Potemkin markets in places like Stalin’s USSR, Mao’s China, Cuba’s Castro and other DNC-friendly dictator countries, it should come as no surprise that IgnoAndNaus thinks he spies one as well.
Maybe if he read what was really going on there instead of swallowing the libtard Kool-Aid, he’d actually realize that Fallujah has been subdued.
But no, anything to discredit the Administration.
Bad news for you, Igno: when you’ve lost Katie Couric, you’ve lost the anti-war movement.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — September 6, 2007 @ 3:08 pm - September 6, 2007
#7
Hell, Ian, the liberals here can’t even meet the benchmarks they set for themselves. How in the hell can they b*tch about the Iraqi government?
That’s what people with at least half a brain call hypocrisy.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 6, 2007 @ 8:08 pm - September 6, 2007
Further, how can they b*tch about the Iraqi government going on vacation from the comfort of their summer homes?
If I thought for a moment they had any, I’d say the liberals had a lot of balls. It’s not surprising, though, that Maliki came out and told the liberals they could drop down to the Fifth Ring and cook.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 6, 2007 @ 8:10 pm - September 6, 2007