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ADKbrown	Post subject: Objectivity overrated? Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 4:43 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	*Sometimes I think so. From The Guardian:*<p>Despite all the Iraqi setbacks, information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf continues his bravura performances from behind a forest of microphones at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel. <p>Wearing his customary black beret, and with rimless spectacles perched on his nose, he gave some astonishingly detailed and authoritative-sounding accounts of Iraqi military successes yesterday, including the news that US forces at Baghdad airport have been butchered and driven out. <p>This morning, he was on exceptionally good form. "Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad," he said. "Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected." <p>During the war, Mr al-Sahaf has emerged as the only truly entertaining character in the Iraqi regime. It is to be hoped that he survives, because he really ought to be given his own TV show somewhere. <p>He will be a hard act to follow, but James Woolsey, the man favoured by the Pentagon to take over the Iraqi information ministry, is already shaping up to the job, despite objections from the White House. <p>*A former CIA director controlling information coming out of Iraq. I wonder if that's an improvement over Mr. al-Sahaf.*
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pzicari	Post subject: Re: Objectivity overrated? Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 12:45 am
Joined: Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 131 Location: Cleveland, OH	I'd appreciate all that lovely irony more if I hadn't read a couple of web-loggers' comments that they found him more believable than the U.S. spokesmen.<p>Then there were the people at news conferences in the U.S. asking, days after it was obvious that plans had changed, when they were going to see some "shock and awe." I guess they were being tough. <p>Have you ever noticed that wars beget cynics? The crap-to-fact ratio gets so high -- on all sides -- that there's no other way to look at things. <p>(Then again, did I need to say that here? Sorry.)
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Re: Objectivity overrated? Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 8:05 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	*Another nugget from the Guardian*:<p>Tony Blair - his eyes flashing like an American evangelist - and President Bush - his eyes suggesting it was well past his bedtime - concluded their two-day meeting in northern Ireland yesterday.
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