My mother saw this interview and called me all upset about Iraq - no fu*king wonder. I'm including the link, and some of the most ridiculous portions of the transcript.
COOPER: So, where is the war right now?
WARE: Well...it's hard to see how the war is not in an intractable position. I mean, there's a lot of activity, but there's no progress, either politically, economically or militarily.
Nope, nada, not a thing.
COOPER:...Supporters of the war and Cheney point to the democratic elections that have been held.
WARE: Right...But what's the reality? What's it like for the ordinary Iraqi on the street? And their common retort is, if this is democracy, then we'd rather have the old ways.
The ordinary Iraqi wants Saddam back. Sure.
| Sorry, can't have him now. |
COOPER: Before the break, CNN's Michael Ware was describing his near execution by al Qaeda insurgents in Iraq.
That's what happens when you try to befriend them, you lunatic.
Ware: The American war in Iraq made Zarqawi. It turned him from a relative nobody into one of the superstars of global jihad
Try DEAD and a big fat JOKE to al Qaeda.
What al Qaeda in Iraq has now done is declared this western part of the country an Islamic state. Within this Islamic state, they intend to rule by Sharia law, pure Islamic law. AQ is doing so well that it can dare declare a part of American-occupied Iraq an al Qaeda Islamic state, a country within the American occupation.
Is that so? What utter BS. Have you ever seen such adulation for terrorists in your life?
There is an interesting bit at the beginning about Green Berets and Kurds chasing AQ out of Iraq before the invasion. Of course, relayed in the context of yet another coalition failure. |