CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR'S STATEMENTS ON LARRY KING

[Texan_Til_I_Die]

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The Iraq war has been a disaster, and journalists have paid for it.

This is not acceptable what's going on there and it's a terrible situation.

It's a spiraling security disaster... And by any indication whether you take the number of journalists killed or wounded, whether you take the number of Iraqi soldiers killed and wounded, contractors, people working there, it just gets worse and worse.



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Notice who's missing from her list of casualties? This is what really burns my toast when it comes to the mainstream media.

[Gator]

Maybe the journalist's should just leave then. That would be a start!

[Jimfrompa]

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Maybe the journalist's should just leave then. That would be a start!

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Might be able to get something done then.

[buckee]

I got a better idea. Maybe she should go fill in for one of the journalists.
Did she think that war was pretty, and now is upset because it's not, or what?

[slugshooter]

I'm trying to figure out where you got that statement. I am assuming from the Larry King Show last night, which, doesn't really resemble anything that you have typed on here.

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KING: Christiane, have you been in that kind of vehicle that these two men were in?

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I have been with the Iraqi Army. I'm trying to visualize the kind of vehicle that they were in on Sunday. I've been with the Iraqi Army in a completely unarmored vehicle that looks more like a basic truck.

And, it's really tough when you go out and do that and for sure every time I go out with either the U.S. or the Iraqi Army I am very conscious that this is a potentially life-threatening exercise and, you know, you basically pray from the minute you go out to the minute you come back and you thank God when you've come back.

And, I cannot tell you how awful I feel for Bob and Doug and for their families, their wives, their children who have to put up with them going away and waiting for them just like our families do when we come back.

But, as Peter Arnett said, and I think that the others have said, that number one it's our responsibility. Number two, if we don't do it, who does it? We have had so -- we have to have an independent eye on these conflicts. 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.

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.

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The purpose of the show was to discuss the explosion that injured the ABC News anchor and cameraman the other day. I wouldn't take it as a snub that she intentionally forgot to mention that US Serviceman are dying over there. There are many, many, many more people that are dying over there that we don't even hear about. Here's the link.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...30/lkl.01.html

[Texan_Til_I_Die]

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...30/lkl.01.html

It's all in the transcript. I took those quotes out verbatim (actually copied and pasted). You need to scroll further down the page to find everything.

Oh, and in the interest of full disclosure, Ms. Amanpour DOES eventually mention US casualties. But of course it's in the context of her bemoaning the fact that they (reporters) don't have full access to see the coffins, attend the buriels, and interview the service men and women currently receiving treatment in military hospitals.

[Texan_Til_I_Die]

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I got a better idea. Maybe she should go fill in for one of the journalists.
Did she think that war was pretty, and now is upset because it's not, or what?

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The bad guys would have to be crazy to hurt her. She's the best friend they've got in the mainstream media.

[slugshooter]

I guess it's all in the interpretation. I don't think she was bemoaning the fact that they don't have access to soldier casualties. She was answering a question from someone who called in to the show. Such as [ QUOTE ]
CALLER: Hello, my question is for the panel this evening. The first thing I want to say is I want to commend President Bush and all of the United States military on all of the hard work and success that we've had with the war against terrorism in Iraq.

And my question is, why are the civilian reporters given more media attention than the American soldiers who are the everyday heroes that are wounded on a daily basis?

AMANPOUR: Well, I think it's an incredibly good question. The caller is absolutely right. And, as Bob Schieffer has just said, of course we focus on very well known people and members of our own community.

But the reason that the deaths and injuries of the American soldiers don't get as much publicity is because we are by and large banned from seeing it.

The United States government has made a decision that we are not allowed to see the coffins, that we're not allowed to see the burials, that we're generally not allowed to go to any of the areas where there are wounded, U.S. military hospitals.

Perhaps you can see a little bit more in Landstuhl in Germany. Perhaps when we go to the hospitals in the United States. But it's very, very difficult to get close to that kind of real tragedy that the American servicemen and women are going through as well.


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I think Christiane is rather objective when it comes to the news. She looks at both angles.

[Texan_Til_I_Die]

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I think Christiane is rather objective when it comes to the news. She looks at both angles.

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Huh? Objective? She's one of the most anti-US, anti-military, anti-Isreali, pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas journalists I've ever seen.
And don't get me wrong, she's entitled to her opinions and beliefs. But don't get in front of the camera and try to say you're being objective when you've clearly got an agenda.
That's what I find so refreshing about talk radio and the blogosphere. Those folks come right out and say "I'm conservative" or "I'm liberal". None of this pretention to being unbiased.

[Tominator]

Someone needs to show her the door.

[buckee]

I apologize for what I said...I think

[johnf]

I bet if all the liberal left media left Iraq, no more of them would get hurt or die. Duh.

Do they not realize that this is the nature of war?

[AllArmyoutdoorsSD]

War is faught by warriors batlles ensue and people get hurt, sad but true. If it's too hot, get out of the kitchen!

[stevebeilgard]

shristiana objective? wow..... not even close, i don't think