Comments on: ABC: White House did not object to Iran story.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:55:19 +0000

It should be clear that Romney did not say that they were doing anything illegal, and he emphasized they had the right to do it, but said that Media outlets should just make better business decissions. We don’t need to bring in the fact the White House didn’t object or whether they wanted it out. Bottom line is, big media is more concerned with breaking a story than they are about the impact. There is no restraint anymore. Respect and concern over the impacts of stories has gone out the window.

By: Nobody Knows

Nobody Knows — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:21:18 +0000

The Cheney administration has manipulated information since before Gulf War I and this is just more of the same. The CIA probably has very few assets in Iran and is probably as limp and impotent as it was at finding the WMDs in Iraq. The President, Cheney’s poodle, is a vegetable as nearly as I can tell. It is like he is comatose. He seems to make a pretty good sock puppet with Cheney’s hand in his kiester….

By: Ben B

Ben B — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:28:08 +0000

Hi, free press, wtf why should ABC have a concern if the WH doesn’t want them to show something? Oh wait, maybe that’s why their coverage of the CF in Iraq is so bad…

It jeapordizes, blah blah blah. Hey, you know what else jeapordizes the troops? HAVING THEM IN IRAQ OR IRAN.

By: Shirley

Shirley — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:51:53 +0000

So ABC is basically admitting here that they are a shill for the White House?
Nice. The propaganda is coming hot and heavy.

By: 1984

1984 — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:59:35 +0000

It’s absolutely nothing new to Iran, they know USA suffers from imperial hubris especially from those “crazies” the neoconservatives.

By: JPark

JPark — Thu, 24 May 2007 05:01:05 +0000

Mr. Propaganda. I am 99% certain that was irony. Either way, though, we aren’t exactly getting cheap gas.

By: Mr Propaganda

Mr Propaganda — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:52:47 +0000

Why do you all worry about a few thousand deaths? We sacrifice 45,000 US citizens a year on the highways just so the rest of us can drive. So if a few hundred thousand Iraqi’s and Persians have to die so you can have cheap gas, be happy. Congress and the Administration is doing this all for YOU!

By: Vato

Vato — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:18:42 +0000

Need noise to drown out the Monica Goodling testimony, everybody release a story at once.

By: Lance

Lance — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:48:05 +0000

Can we send romney and McCain to Iraq and leave em in the (greenzone)…safe place till after this 08 election,enough flip a flopping I say…..

By: OutSourced

OutSourced — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:47:37 +0000

Mitt Romney would have been more credible if he had said the obvious: it is this administration’s attempt to destabilize the legally constituted govt of another country that is putting lives at risk. ABC’s dislcosure, called News in an earlier generation, may end up reducing the number of lives at risk. But then, that would have required Romney to exhibit statesmanlikerelated behavior, a commodity about as rare among Republican presidential contenders as finding a senior administration official who has a relative at risk in Iraq.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:43:33 +0000

#27 BnF
Yes, I am having similar thoughts about that scenario I heard today.
We’re talking about people’s lives and the thought of even more political machinations taking precedence over that is repulsive.

By: John S

John S — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:26:39 +0000

This is a classical Cheney move, backed by Bubbleboy. Rice is going to Iran for one-on-one talks with her Iranian counterpart. The administration, Cheney in particular, does not like to negotiate and is disdainful of the State Department. So Cheney moves to undercut Rice by releasing this “secret” information. This has the effect of publicly undercutting Rice’s trip by antagonizing the Iranians and allows Conservatives to paint the media as “liberal”.

By: Its_Me_Ya_Krazy

Its_Me_Ya_Krazy — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:13:16 +0000

just like osama, one minute bush wants him dead, the next he wants go give him a blow-job…. of course they wanted to release it, its preconditioning americans for war with iran.

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:09:49 +0000

ABC news does nothing unless Bush Regime tells them to do it. They are owned by the White House cabal.

By: kelso

kelso — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:54:35 +0000

“Mitt Romney and Tom Tancredo criticized ABC News for reporting on the administrationâ€™s covert plan to destabilize the Iranian regime”

That’s why there’s not a chance in hell either one of those two morons has even the slimmest chance of ever becoming president.

By: Walt

Walt — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:52:14 +0000

That’s the trouble with TV… it never tells you a thing that everybody else didn’t already know.

Every time Iran has agreed to discuss MidEast stability (aka, “Peace in Iraq”) they’ve said that their motivation is in part to get Bush to lay off his intentions, ANNOUNCED MANY TIMES, to take down the government of Iran. And gosh… the US, despite its claims of wanting to have peace in Iraq, somehow finds the Iranian conditions too onerous and the meetings just keep not quite happening.

We got into Iraq NOT because of WMD or oil, but for the larger goal of calling the shots in the MidEast. Never was a short- or mid-term goal, but to re-establish the power that we’ve had since Truman. You think we’re going to play Live-and-Let-Live with Iran just for the sake of a few thousand American lives, a few hundred thousand Iraqi lives, or a few hundred billion dollars?

To me, the real story here is that our government has never given a convincing, clear cut, honest reason for being in the MidEast with all our military force. The dems actually buy into this “projecting American power” line of reasoning, but have belatedly come to realize that Bush couldn’t fight his way out of a paper bag with a flamethrower, and that our goal is receding.

So the potential debate over the real issue is one-sided, and we get these little Page 6 gossip column things that so-and-so semi-celebrity… uhh, Wannabe Leader of the Free World… said something nasty about the kind of four-day-old fish that some TV network dishes out. Almost makes you wish for the McCarthy era when honest-to-God lunatics were up-front about their insanity.

By: Juan C

Juan C — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:32:40 +0000

Sickening news from Yahoo:

BAGHDAD – A body recovered by Iraqi police from the Euphrates River south of Baghad Wednesday was identified as one of three American soldiers abducted in an ambush claimed by al-Qaida, relatives and officials said.

By: Briseadh na Faire

Briseadh na Faire — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:23:46 +0000

Just remember, following Bush’s logic, Iran would be fully justified in launching a pre-emptive strike against our naval forces in the Persian Gulf.

In fact, they’ve got a stronger case than Bush ever had for a pre-emptive strike.

By: Juan C

Juan C — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:19:41 +0000

Iran does watch our news ya know.
Comment by Chris

Sure. The government of Iran must paid all its spies a lot of cash to stay at home and watch US channels.

By: ohboy

ohboy — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:12:39 +0000

Democrats, Republicans .. all the same.

What this country needs is parties that answer to the population not the top 0.001%