CNN's Ware asserted that Democrats' call for Iraq deadline is "aiding the enemies ... of America"

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703090006



On the March 8 edition of CNN's Your World Today, Michael Ware, a correspondent based in CNN's Baghdad bureau, asserted that "anyone trying to put artificial deadlines upon this conflict is only aiding the enemies, so-called, of America, Al Qaeda and Iran. ... {I}n terms of the broader strategic framework, it serves only America's enemies." Ware also said that "what the Democrats are saying about timetables may as well be happening on the planet Pluto for all that it counts to the bloodshed and the endless combat" in Iraq. Anchor Jim Clancy responded: "Michael Ware, calling it like it is, laying it on the line."

Ware was responding to a clip of Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL) saying, "It is time to spend the money to keep safe and bring them home." Schakowsky made her comments at a press conference in support of the Lee Amendment, which would require the "unds appropriated" in a future supplemental spending bill to be spent on "the continued protection of members of the Armed Forces who are in Iraq participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Department of Defense contractor personnel who are in Iraq" and "the safe and complete withdrawal from Iraq of all members of the Armed Forces and contractor personnel ... not later than December 31, 2007."

[Syrinx]

1. someone seems to have "gotten to" Mr. Ware

Wasn't he, just a matter of a few weeks ago, one of the very best sources of news from Iraq?

Or am I confusing him with someone else?

:shrug:

[NNN0LHI]

2. He took some time off, got a shave, and probably got a head whooping by his masters

He is all better now. He appears to have the party line down pat.

Don

[Syrinx]

11. I'm cynical too

How could someone not be now?

[Name removed]

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[Ron Green]

4. Enjoy your stay, Dude.

[The Magistrate]

6. However Fun It May Have Been, Sir, It Has Been Cut Short

"Kill one, warn one hundred."

[countingbluecars]

7. Dear Sir,

Did you notice that he called us 'useful idiots'. It didn't take long.

[The Magistrate]

8. Lenin Originated The Term, Ma'am, In Poltical Parlance

It has been current from the start of the last century, to indicate people who advance a cause other than their own stated one through the actions they undertake, in the belief they are furthering it. Few people have ever had a better eye for how political life proceeds than Gosp. Vladimir Ilyich: he well repays careful study....

[countingbluecars]

9. I doubt that freeper

was aware of the term. More likely he read a very active DU thread where you referred to the military families against the Iraq War as 'useful idiots'. Just my guess-could be wrong.

[The Magistrate]

10. You Would Probably Be Wrong, Ma'am

Rightists are very familiar with a few of Lenin's gems, and with that one in particular, as its original target was reformers of the type refered to in the fifties as 'pinks' and 'fellow travelers'. It is in their common parlance to use it to refer to liberals in general.

"The mind wobbles...."

[countingbluecars]

5. You and your kind

are Bush's useful idiots.

[Amonester]

12. Since when Pluto is NOT a planet?

Has he got it yet?

Is he a-Ware?