Christiane Amanpour, the chief international correspondent for CNN, has injected her personal opinion about the Iraq war into the public domain, twice calling it a "disaster" on national television, saying the situation "just gets worse and worse."
"The war in Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster and journalists have paid for it, paid for the privilege of witnessing and reporting that and so have many, many other people who have been there," Amanpour said last night on the network's "Larry King Live" program in discussion about ABC News journalists Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt, who were seriously injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
"And I think that's terribly, terribly difficult for us and unfortunately for some reason, which I can't fathom, the kind of awful thing that's going on there now on a daily basis has almost become humdrum. So, when something happens to people that we identify, like Bob and like Doug, we wake up again and realize that, no, this is not acceptable what's going on there and it's a terrible situation."
Later in the program, she continued her negative assessment of the conflict, noting " ... most of the Iraqi people are now losing hope that the promised reconstruction is going to happen and that the quality of their lives is going to increase. This is a big drama because hope is the only thing they have in the middle of this spiralling security disaster. And by any indication whether you take the number of journalists killed or wounded, whether you take the number of American soldiers killed or wounded, whether you take the number of Iraqi soldiers killed and wounded, contractors, people working there, it just gets worse and worse." http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/Articles/amanpourcalls.htmlPosts: 149 | Registered: Jan 2006
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I suppose Christine would favor turning over half of the world's oil supply to Islamo-Facist governments like the one in Iran. The inability of some of these people to understand even basic national and global economic security is unreal.
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