I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
“The President said during his remarks to the troops, he said: ‘You’re defeating terrorists in Iraq so we don’t have to face them in our own country.’ Now, there’s no connection between Iraq and 9/11. Why does the President persist in tying those two together?”
– CBS’s Harry Smith to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on the November 28 Early Show.
“There’s obviously great symbolism to this trip, because it is important for a Commander-in-Chief to come and see his troops. But so is there symbolism in that things are so unstable that he had to sneak in, in darkness, that he never left the airport, that he could only stay two and a half hours?...Isn’t there symbolism in the fact that it points up that not much has changed in eight months?”
– ABC’s Charles Gibson asking Condoleezza Rice about President Bush’s Thanksgiving Day trip to Iraq, on the November 28 Good Morning America.
“What are your impressions of the situation in Iraq? How bad is it, in your view?”
– NBC’s Katie Couric to New York Senator Hillary Clinton on the December 1 Today.
“U.S. spokesmen here [in Iraq] insist they are not worried. Given how brazen and ruthless their enemies have shown themselves to be, however, it may be time for a reassessment.”
– Allen Pizzey on the CBS Evening News, November 24.
Peter Jennings: “The Republican National Committee has produced a very tough political ad which will, potentially, make an already bitter debate about war in Iraq and the campaign against terrorism, even more so....”
Dean Reynolds: “While he never mentions his political adversaries, the President’s message, and the printed words – ‘retreat,’ for example, is written in blood red – leave little doubt that the Democrats are his targets and that those who oppose his policies are soft on terror.... [While] the ad may strike a nerve, it is also clearly a use of the Iraq war and 9-11 for political purposes.”
– ABC’s World News Tonight, November 21.
“President Clinton made the [Democratic] party more centrist. Did he sell his soul to the devil in order to get more votes, and was that a massive mistake?”
– Katie Couric to Democratic Party strategist James Carville on the December 3 Today.
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