The Iraqi woman they used to counteract Cindy upset my local DJ

[LittleClarkie]

He figured they got someone who didn't speak much English on purpose. I didn't see it. He said she acted like she didn't understand the questions being asked, by Tweety I think he said, and would answer the question that she THOUGHT Tweety was trying to ask. It wasn't good, he said.

But I thought the Iraqi woman on Tweety's show was married to an American, and folks here said she probably had never been to Iraq.

Maybe I'm confused. Two different Iraqi women?

Anyway, it was funny that he saw liberal bias where we saw conservative bias.

[rodeodance]

1. she sounded to like she did not know much English and tweety was

very harsh with her. he asked who the 'bad guys' are in Irag.

well, even rummy and myers have difficult time answering that one.

[rodeodance]

3. see this thread also

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2011543

[Postman]

2. See this link...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4363569


She is the wife of a reporter that works for the Voice of America (VOA)...What do you think the VOA is? Can you say p-r-o-p-a-g-a-n-d-a?

[LittleClarkie]

5. That's what I thought. So it was the same woman?

So why the "No speak English" routine?

[wishlist]

4. I thought Tweety gave her tough questions she didn't want to answer

During the part I saw, she claimed that Iraqis want us to stay in Iraq. He asked her if the insurgents were Iraqis. She would not answer him even after he repeated the question. She was obviously embarrassed to admit that the insurgents were Iraqis and therefore her blanket statement that the Iraqis want us to stay there was not really accurate.

[EC]

6. Here's her part of the interview...

<snip>

MATTHEWS: Okay. That‘s good to hear. Let me go to May Hasan Lamotte. You‘re an Iraqi national. You married a journalist. You‘re here now. Why did you come down to Crawford, Texas today? Or yesterday?

MAY HASAN LAMOTTE, IRAQI OPPOSING CINDY SHEEHAN: I came here to tell everybody and all American people that I feel sorry about every brave soldier who gave his life to give me and give my country and give my people our freedom. And to tell them that their children sacrifices, they didn‘t go for nothing. And I came here to ask Cindy to stop this and keep all troops in Iraq because if they will leave, it will be disaster for my country and for my people. Then their sacrifices will mean nothing.

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you, who are we fighting over there? The same question I put to Debi. Who are the bad guys, if you will? In Iraq?

LAMOTTE: Excuse me?

MATTHEWS: Who are the enemy?

LAMOTTE: The enemy? In Iraq?

MATTHEWS: Yes.

LAMOTTE: Bad people. Bad people who do not wish the Iraqi people to enjoy freedom, to enjoy peace. This is the bad people.

MATTHEWS: Who are they? Are they Iraqis?

LAMOTTE: Iraqis? I do not expect Iraqi people wish to themselves to live in bad situation. Especially after their experience with Saddam Hussein. I think it‘s from outside who, they will always, they were always thinking to cause harm to my people and my country because they have many of benefits when they can control my country.

MATTHEWS: So the people killing Americans in Iraq right now are from outside Iraq. Is that what you‘re saying?

LAMOTTE: Excuse me?

MATTHEWS: Are the people in Iraq who are killing our guys, are they Iraqis? Or not?

LAMOTTE: Maybe you can find—I cannot say to you because I didn‘t meet any bad people to ask him whether he is Iraqi or from outside of Iraq. But you can find bad people everywhere.

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you this. How many years should the United States stay in Iraq and defend the side that you‘re on?

LAMOTTE: I think when...

MATTHEWS: How many years?

LAMOTTE: I think when Iraqi people can be—stand up on their own, at that time.

MATTHEWS: When? How many years?

LAMOTTE: When, I cannot say to you how many years because everything takes time. So how can I say this. But I know good that when Iraqi people get their chance to be—enjoy their freedom and know the meaning of freedom and live in peace and can depend and can stand up on their own, at that time we will be ready to be alone. But now, no.

MATTHEWS: OK. I think a lot of Americans would like to know whether it is a couple of years or 10 years. And if it is 10 years, I think a lot of people will say that‘s too long. Anyway, thank you, Debi Bohannan, thank you, May Hasan Lamotte.


I think she understood the questions, just not how to answer with the slant that was wanted. She's married to a newsman for Voice of America...what do you think the slant was supposed to be? If she was from Iraq as Chris presented (as though she still lived there until she got married) than she should have known who the "bad" guys were, Iraqi or others...