That's cute. We're against a peer-reviewed study (using the accepted method of cluster-sampling) when it reveals (Lancet study) how many people died from the illegal war (over a million) but we're fine with a simple count that is an estimate -- an admitted estimate -- when it gives us a count for Syria that we want to use for a new war.
And it's cute that a louse infested liar thinks he has some sort of ethical authority at this late date to call for war with anyone.
Why is Tony up in arms? Turns out the so-called 'rebels' are yet again flailing around. When you're a US-created and backed force, you don't get a lot of support from your host country.
In a functioning world, Blair would be behind bars.
And a lot of members of the press would be in there with him. Candy Crowley deserves a couple of decades in Cell Block H for her stupidity and/or lying.
Here's a little sample of CNN's scariest on air hosting State of Union yesterday and speaking with Gen Martin Dempsey, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
CROWLEY: I wanted to ask you about Syria, because there's been talk about what a no-fly zone that we had in Libya.
DEMPSEY: Well first I'd like to start with what we are doing and not what we're not doing because we tend to focus on what we're not doing. We're contributing hundreds of millions of dollars in nonlethal and humanitarian assistance. We're working a great deal with our partners in the region. And I would highlight for you, Candy, that when we talk about Syria, I try not to focus in and view that issue through a soda straw.
This is an issue that extends from Beirut, to Damascus, to Baghdad. And in fact over the last six months, the levels of violence in both Lebanon and Baghdad have been alarmingly high. So there's a regional issue here. It is related, not exclusively, but related to a competition at best and a conflict at worse between the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam, and it's been hijacked at some level on both sides by extremists, al Qaeda on one side and Lebanese Hezbollah and others on the other side. So this is not a simple matter of, you know, stopping the fight by the introduction of any particular U.S. capability. And the other point I'd make is this is about a 10-year issue, and if we fail to think about it as a 10-year regional issue, we could make some mistakes.
CROWLEY: What does that mean? You think that Bashar Al Assad will be in power for 10 years?
DEMPSEY: No. No, no, I'm not making any predictions of how long he'll be there or not there. I'm suggesting to you that the underlying causes of the conflict, as I've just described them to you, will persist for 10 years.
We'll end it there and 'miss' her attempts at being cute. Her guest is Martin Dempsey.
So what's the required question, the one that a real journalist would ask but Crowley's too busy focusing on her next meal.
Here's what Martin Dempsey said at a public Pentagon press conference:
We have a mil-to-mil relationship with the Lebanese armed forces now. I've had since I -- since I commanded CENTCOM, actually, about four or five years ago. And we've made a recommendation that as we look at the challenges faced by the Lebanese armed forces, the Iraqi security forces with a re-emerging al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the Jordanians, that we would work with them to help them build additional capability. But this -- when you say would we send the United States Army or the United States military into Lebanon, I'm talking about teams of trainers, and I'm talking about accelerating foreign military sales for equipment for them. This is -- this is about building their capability, not ours.
That was two weeks ago. We covered it in real time:
She's got Dempsey and she can't even ask him about Iraq?
Seriously?
Candy Crowley is trash. She's trash TV and she needs to be replaced. With some of the tele-idiots, you can say, "Well it's a visual medium and they look nice." Crowley looks ugly and is uninformed. How long is CNN going to continue to let her bring the whole network down?
You may remember, Big Girl thought she was real cute in the debate. She decided, against debate rules, that she'd fact check. But Fat Head didn't fact check. She slammed Romney and cowardly admitted he was right after the debate but she never fact checked St. Barack.
From "Let the fun begin (Ava and C.I.):"
The administration is as empty as the media. If you doubt that, September 26th, the New York Times' Tim Arango reported:
Iraq and the United States are negotiating an agreement that could result in the return of small units of American soldiers to Iraq on training missions. At the request of the Iraqi government, according to General Caslen, a unit of Army Special Operations soldiers was recently deployed to Iraq to advise on counterterrorism and help with intelligence.
September 26th it was in print.
Days later, October 3rd, Barack 'debated' Mitt Romney. Again October 16th. Again October 22nd.
Not once did the moderators ever raise the issue.
If Barack's sitting before them and he's flat out lying to the American people, it's their job to ask. They didn't do their job. Nor did social menace Candy Crowley who was apparently dreaming of an all-you-can-eat buffet when Barack was babbling away before her about how he wouldn't allow more "troops in Iraq that would tie us down." But that's exactly what he's currently negotiating.
Maybe Candy Crowley missed the New York Times article? Maybe she spends all her time pleasuring herself to her version of porn: Cooking With Paula Deen Magazine?
That is possible.
She had Dempsey on yesterday and wouldn't ask him about Iraq. Not even after she let Barack lie in the October 16th debate that he wouldn't go for more "troops in Iraq that would tie us down." But he'd already gone for it and Tim Arango had already reported it in the New York Times. Maybe if Candy could stop making everything about her never-ending meals, she could actually be familiar with information that matters? Maybe not. You don't end up on TV looking like Jabba The Hut in a greasy wig unless you take no pride at all in how you're viewed.
Friday night, Dale McFeatters (Chicago Sun Times) observed:
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has recommended that U.S. commanders find ways to improve Iraq’s military capabilities. This would involve additional weapons and training and, although neither government would say so publicly, some level of U.S. involvement in operations.
The language accompanying the proposal suggests
that it is a done deal. We could hardly let the Iraqis say they were
open to military cooperation with the U.S., an embarrassing admission in
itself, and then humiliate them by slapping down the offer.
But Candy Crowley still has no clue. Maybe if they printed it on a Hershey candy bar wrapper, she might read it?
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