Comments on: The Public Eye Chat With…Allen Pizzey

[sr185]

"Here's another comparison for anti-Iraq War people to consider. Please name one war that met your idealistic standards of no casualties, very low cost, instantaneous postwar rebuilding, the spontaneous incorporation of a new democratic government, and the total lack of deadender holdouts attempting to delay the inevitable."

Korla Pundit,

Which dingbat government said "Mission accomplished", stated that oil revenues would pay for the Iraq reconstruction within a year, promised it would pull its troops out within a few years, and declared that the insurgency was "in its last throes."

Yep, the most intellectually and morally bankrupt administration in US history.

Now go back to milking a cow.

[deadbeatwrit]

Well, if it's safe enough to walk in Baghdad, or at least safe enough for i Iraqis /i to walk in Baghdad, why aren't you guys asking for a phased pullout? Obviously, The Surge has worked, and we are no longer needed.

[wkiernan-2009]

All this talk in these comments about CBS News's lack of "objectivity" is beside the point. There is only one important question here: is it safe to walk around Baghdad (without body armor, a hundred heavily-armed bodyguards and five helicopters hovering overhead, that is) or is it not safe?

Is it safe? Pizzey, who has been in Baghdad in person may times, who lost three colleagues in Baghdad during the last year, claims that it is not safe, that to say it is safe is "talking rubbish." But a bunch of right-wing posters who have never been within five thousand miles of Baghdad are absolutely positive that Pizzey is wrong.

[breadncircus]

Hey, erinleigh89, you say McCain is WRONG, and you "...agree with Pizzey that McCain is pushing his electoral propaganda" because you are hearing the hearing the news from the likes of Pizzy.

I would be willing to bet that you have never been to Iraq, or personally know anyone who has been there, so neither you nor I know just how fair the reporting is. You're guessing just like me.

[rjstolba]

I suppose the press is not to be trusted. After all they do pad the truth--It's safe to walk around in Baghdad? In addition, they aren't always factual--Petraeus walks around by himself?Where have these press busters been hiding?

[reasoned]

What's "disgraceful and rubbish" is leftist journalists Mr. Pizzey trying to pass themselves off as objective!!!

[deadbeatwrit]

"McCain Said that the media does not tell the entire picture. They never have. The 'news' from Iraq is always about the latest bombing. Nothing else. How can so-called reporters like hissy disagree with what McCain said." %u2014 f7prez

Reporters are asked not to report on progress for fear of insurgent retaliation. *That%u2019s* security?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6I420_fPM2E

[deadbeatwrit]

"Iraq isn't safe for Westerners. I am fairly sure what McCain meant by 'you can walk around' was that Iraqis could walk around in safety." %u2014 reasonable3

Iraqis like Suaada Saadoun?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/world/middleeast/30sectarian.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Ms. Saadoun was a Sunni Arab living in a Shiite enclave of western Baghdad. A widowed mother of seven, she and her family had been chased out once before. This time, she called American and Kurdish soldiers at a base less than a mile to the east. The men tried to drive away, but the soldiers had blocked the street. They pulled the men out of the car.

"If anything happens to us, they're the ones responsible," said Ms. Saadoun, 49, a burly, boisterous woman in a black robe and lavender-blue head scarf. The Americans shoved the men into a Humvee. Neighbors clapped and cheered as if their soccer team had just won a title.

The next morning, Ms. Saadoun was shot dead while walking by a bakery in the local market.

The final hours of Ms. Saadoun's life reveal the ferocity with which Shiite militiamen are driving Sunni Arabs from Baghdad house by house, block by block, in an effort to rid the capital of them. It is happening even as thousands of additional American troops and Iraqi soldiers have been sent to Baghdad as part of President Bush's so-called surge strategy.

[gansett55]

effallah - typical lib twisting other comments to suit him/her. All conservatives listen to Rush, are delusional, read conservative blogs only. Whatever. You're just like Pizzey, an elitist, blame America-firster. Save it for your peace rally. You ever wonder who we're really fighting in Iraq? TERRORISTS!!! Not freedom fighters, not Iraqi civilians. These scum are pure evil. This isn't about Bush, Blair, cons vs. libs, this is about fighting TERRORISTS who want to KILL US, and if you can't grasp that simple concept, then you're obviously part of the problem not the solution.

[f7prez]

McCain Said that the media does not tell the entire picture. They never have. The "news" from Iraq is always about the latest bombing. Nothing else. How can so-called reporters like hissy disagree with what McCain said. Instead they lash out about the security he had with him. They don't address the claim that reporters have NEVER told the full story. They have only told the stories that make the war look like a lost cause.