Check out the snooty comments from Ted Baxter...er Koppel. But of course he was just being fair and balanced....what a tool!!!
FNC Asks Franks to Expound on How "Combat
Over" Was His Idea
Update: On FNC's Fox and Friends on Wednesday morning, retired General Tommy Franks was asked to expound on how it was his idea to have President Bush announce that major combat operations were complete in Iraq.
The August 4 CyberAlert had reported: ABC's Ted Koppel plowed right through Franks' admission that President Bush's May 2003 announcement that major combat was over was his idea, motivated by a desire to bring "closure" to troops and to convince nations which promised troop support as soon as combat was complete to provide those troops. But instead of exploring those rationale, Koppel fired at Franks with snooty statements about President Bush, such as, "you didn't suggest he put on a flight suit and sit backseat on a plane landing on an aircraft carrier, did you?" and "I assume, you didn't paint the banner that said 'mission accomplished,' either?" See: www.mediaresearch.org
The taped Koppel interview aired Monday night. Franks appeared live Wednesday morning on FNC to promote his new book, American Soldier, and MRC analyst Megan McCormack caught this question to him from Steve Doocy: "Let me ask you about this. John Kerry's people have made a lot about President Bush's photo-op onboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, with the sign behind 'Mission Accomplished.' They say, 'you know, Karl Rove dreamed that up in the White House.' Karl Rove did not dream that up, you did."
Franks: "Well, I didn't actually dream the part on the aircraft carrier, but I did ask the President, through Don Rumsfeld, to declare an end, a success, at major combat operations, and so I plead guilty. And I was, and I appreciated the fact that the President of the United States did that, because we had a hundred thousand plus soldiers on the ground in Iraq, and they'd been involved in a big war, and it gave them closure for what they had done. So yeah, I did that. Guilty as charged."
-- Brent Baker |
