Comments on: Katie: Greetings From Baghdad

[cloey13]

AAAGGGHHH-I feel like I''m reading my high school year book. Wow, you flew in on a private jet. The CBS employees in Baghdad work hard. Wow, I know everything now.

You need to come home and host a cooking show. You''re not ready to cover a war. This is the feminization of terrorism. Find me a bunker to hide in.

[petersemkiw]

Dear Katie,

Greetings from the USA!

Stay safe!

Peter

[ericmichael1]

Katie, you go to Baghdad and get 30+ blogs. I think you have shaken it up a bit. :)

Vary your routines.

Don''t reveal information about your movements publicly until after the fact.

Keep your distance from suspicious objects.

If under fire or threat of fire, go to the ground. Understand what cover and concealment is.

Listen to your military security.

Listen to the CBS crew that has been there for awhile.

Assure your kids you''re alright.

And come home safe, Katie.

Eric

[axolotl1-2009]

I can''t wait. I''d rather hear/see Lara L than home-office Katie, not quite the international journalist. What can she possibly add? The Iraq reporting by CBS is a shadow of what it would have been with the reporters of old. The problem with CBS News is there are very few journalists, as opposed to entertainers and lifestyle experts.

Katie occasionally does a good interview. But, like
any newbie in Iraq, she''s gonna be fed a load of BS by the military and state people. We''ll never know if she sorts it out correctly. If she is gullible regarding the surge, she''ll be force fed. If she''s fawning and the ingenue (at 50?) with General P and Amb. C, it will be gross. Ask some tough questions for goodness sake. Be skeptical.

Regardless, I hope Katie stays safe. I look forward to her reports.

[denclar]

To find out how reporters and Democratic legislators are being spun in the green zone check this story from the Washington Post via Raw Story--

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/test_0831.html

Do you think Katie will get this treatment?

[denclar]

To find out how reporters and Democratic legislators are being spun in the green zone check this story from the Washington Post via Raw Story--

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/test_0831.html

Do you think Katie will get this treatment?

[oakishpines]

'' ... when george washington caught the enemy holding hands and weaving boquets with little girls, she became enraged and chased them all through the garden spanking their naked lazy ignorant profane blemished ***** ... ''

[oakishpines]

'' ... it is not a question of will the pharoah and the congress and the nation ultimately fail, it is a question of who will they fail to: wads of girls with bouquets or tiny bundles of men with bombs, and the surest way to ensure the desirable outcome is to be the desirable outcome ... ''

[neilrpf]

Katie is a morning talk show host pretending to be a journalist in a combat zone.

I do wish her all safety in her attempt to pull the evening news ratings out of the basement. I just hope the soldiers assigned to protect her do not get hurt.

[frankie12342]

"One-hundred-and-ten degrees with full-body armor and heavy uniforms. I don''t know how they do it. But they do, and we should be grateful. "

For what exactly should we be grateful? They''re not actually protecting us against anything. Iraq didn''t attack us, rememeber? Iraq had no WMD''s, remember? There was no yellowcake, remember?

Should we be grateful that our national treasure is being spent down to, and past, nothing, just so we can have access to all that oil.

We went to war based on lies just so we could occupy the country until we were sure we could control, to the extent possible, the oil. It was a simple imperialist move, plain and simple. It''s been happening throughout time.