Brian Williams, Live From Iraq is more like Brian Williams, Trying To Stay Alive In Iraq

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/11/AR2007031101519.html

Brian Williams, Anchoring and Hunkering in Iraq

Soon after arriving in Iraq, Brian Williams was listening to an Army colonel describe how much safer Ramadi had gotten when another soldier shouted that it was too dangerous to stand there and hustled them inside the military outpost.

Days later at the Baghdad airport, Williams and his team heard five explosions, saw smoke rising near the taxiway in front of them, and were relieved to board the Fokker jet that carried them out of the country.

"How is it that these guys are running around with mortars, four years into this conflict?" the NBC anchor says of the insurgents. "We need to provide safe passage into that airport, and we're still doing corkscrew landings? It's crazy."

Reporting in Iraq is a series of risk-benefit assessments. The day after 118 Iraqi pilgrims were killed in a series of coordinated attacks, Williams canceled a planned visit to an open-air Shiite market, based on advice from his team, which included a retired general. He passed up other outings as well for safety reasons.

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1. You mean the MSM

has finally awakened from its Kool Aid induced stupor? They are finally realizing what a mess is in Iraq?

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2. The first day that he reported from there he said that things are SO MUCH BETTER.

Right, Brian. A little dose of reality goes a long, long way.

[montanacowboy]

3. Yeah, I saw that

I almost died laffing; Brian you fuckin idiot; tell us how the "surge" is working asshole