Peter Arnett is a New Zealander who used to pass himself off as a
journalist.  He became somewhat famous for his live reports on CNN
during the beginning of the Gulf War in 1990/1991.  However many people
felt he colored his reports and made them more favorable toward the
Iraqi.  He later traveled to various hotspots around the world for the
next several years.  In 1998, he did a report on CNN which accused
American forces of using sarin nerve gas on a Laotian village in 1970 to
hill U.S. defectors.  That report proved to be false and was retracted
by CNN.  Arnett was fired from CNN after a time.

During operation Iraqi Freedom, Peter Arnett started reporting again.
He was in Baghdad under the auspices of MSNBC's National Geographic
Explorer and later, NBC.  After he was abruptly fired for what he did,
outlined below, he was then hired by Britain's Daily Mirror.

A week or so after the start of the operation, he was interviewed by
Iraqi TV in Baghdad where he said:

"In answer to your question, it is clear that within the United States
there is growing challenge to President Bush about the conduct of the
war and also opposition to the war.  So our reports about civilian
casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going
back to the United States.  It helps those who oppose the war when you
challenge the policy to develop their arguments."

"Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the
Iraqi forces.  And I personally do not understand how that happened,
because I've been here many times and in my commentaries on television I
would tell the Americans about the determination of the Iraqi forces,
the determination of the government, and the willingness to fight for
their country.  But me, and others who felt the same way were not
listened to by the Bush administration.  That is why now America is
re-appraising the battlefield, delaying the war, maybe a week, and
re-writing the war plan.  The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi
resistance.  Now they are trying to write another war plan."

As you can see his reporting is very even-handed and accurate.  It is in
the same league as Baghdad Bob's reporting of current events.  At least
old MSS was an Iraqi.

I guess you are right about handing someone enough rope.

And in answer to you other question, could it be because there is a lot
of hate?


Denys

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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Re: Rules for being a republican

Denys,
You wrote :
> You must have graduated Summa cum Laude from the Peter Arnett
> course in reporting at the BBC school of journalism.

You lost me there. Never heard of him.

> The original post was obviously copied from one of the many
 > Hate-Bush or Hate-America websites out there.

And why do you think there are so many of these sites out there?

[snip]
> Nice try anyway.

Wasn't any kind of "try".

Ever heard the expression "give someone enough rope..."

Cheers,

John Dunlop

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