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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hui zhou who wrote (5723)	3/31/2003 8:33:06 AM
From: gypsees	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

NBC fired journalist Peter Arnett on Monday foxnews.com Monday, March 31, 2003 NEW YORK — NBC fired journalist Peter Arnett on Monday, saying it was wrong for him to give an interview with state-run Iraqi TV saying that the American-led coalition's first war plan had failed because of Iraq's resistance. Arnett himself called the interview a "misjudgment." Arnett, on NBC's Today show on Monday, said he was sorry for his statement but added, "I said over the weekend what we all know about the war." "I want to apologize to the American people for clearly making a misjudgment," Arnett said. NBC had defended him on Sunday, saying he had given the interview as a professional courtesy and that his remarks were analytical in nature. But by Monday morning the network switched course and, after Arnett spoke with NBC News President Neal Shapiro, said it would no longer work with Arnett. "It was wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview to state-controlled Iraqi TV, especially at a time of war," NBC spokeswoman Allison Gollust said. "And it was wrong for him to discuss his personal observations and opinions in that interview." Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Vietnam for The Associated Press, garnered much of his prominence from covering the 1991 Gulf War for CNN. One of the few American television reporters left in Baghdad, his reports were frequently aired on NBC and its cable sisters, MSNBC and CNBC.

To: hui zhou who wrote (5723)	3/31/2003 8:44:01 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 21614

Re: ARNETT: 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.... The US Chief of Staff isn't "re-writing" anything! As I put it to Karen, the occupation of Iraq was planned from the onset... Occupation of Iraq is not the Pentagon's Plan B, it's part and parcel of Plan A. Of course, the Pentagon's sales pitch presented the war as a "liberation blitz" in order to assuage US opinion. Again, the US military is up to mimick the Israeli occupation of the West Bank on a much wider scale... Who knows, perhaps "illegal settlements" of Jews and Evangelicals come next.... Gus