Judith Miller: Give Iran Talks ‘The Good College Try’ But ‘Military Action’ Needed If They Fail
Judith Miller: Give Iran Talks ‘The Good College Try’ But ‘Military Action’ Needed If They Fail
Last night on Fox News, the Special Report “All-Star Panel” discussed a new Washington Institute for Near East Policy report calling for tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Panel regulars Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes naturally argued that the U.S. should instead attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
But disgraced New York Times reporter turned Fox News analyst Judith Miller — a rare “All-Star” panelist — briefly broke ranks. “I’m with the president on this one,” she said. “I think that we had eight years of calling the Iranians names. … What we really need to do is give it the good college try to see if there is a deal to be done.” Yet, Miller quickly sank back into her neoconservative comfort zone, arguing that if all else fails, “military action” will be necessary:
MILLER: And let’s say it doesn’t succeed, and the Iranians continue on their merry way, trying to have a bomb and trying to have relations with the world. At least then America will be able to say we have tried negotiations without preconditions. We have done everything we can. And it will set the stage for really tough sanctions. And, if that fails, unfortunately, military action.
Watch it:
It appears that old habits die hard when you’re hanging around the neoconservative crowd. As New York Magazine noted in 2004, “During the winter of 2001 and throughout 2002, Miller produced a series of stunning stories about Saddam Hussein’s ambition and capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction…almost all of which have turned out to be stunningly inaccurate.”
Miller’s neocon friends in the Bush administration (as well as Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi) fed her that false information, and she hung onto every word. In late 2002, citing unnamed officials, she co-wrote a New York Times article reporting that Iraq had “stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb.” Senior Bush officials then pointed to Miller’s story as justification for war with Iraq. Miller even claimed shortly after the invasion that WMD had been found in Iraq.
In 2005, Miller went to jail for refusing to testify in the Valerie Plame leak scandal (Plame ironically worked on countering Iran’s nuclear program). While Miller was in jail, Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff Scooter Libby — a staunch neocon in his own right — wrote to her about how much he admired her and urged her to “come back to work — and life.”
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MILLER: And, if that fails, unfortunately, military action.
What part of Iraq and Afghanistan mess does she not understand?
Fcuking Repukian War Mongers.
March 6th, 2009 at 5:49 pmLet me get down on my knees and thank God McCain (or any other Republican) didn’t win this election.
March 6th, 2009 at 5:53 pmIf President Obama spends all of our taxpayer dollars to help America and Americans then there won’t have any money left to pay for wars in the Middle East for Israel.
Judith Miller is a Zionist.
March 6th, 2009 at 5:54 pmMore chickenhawk advice from the losers.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:04 pmIgnore, rinse and repeat.
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FOXPRAVDA always gets the CON…
… vict!
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March 6th, 2009 at 6:04 pmOops…
March 6th, 2009 at 6:04 pm… meant HIRES !
Miller: We had eight years of calling Iranians names like Valerie Plame, whoops, forget I said that.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:05 pmAnd the reason we should believe the lying liar that lead the echo-chamber to deceive this nation into a war of conquest in Iraq?
March 6th, 2009 at 6:06 pmWhat a fall, from writing for the NYT to hawking neocon ghost stories for trailer trash who don’t read well enough to get through the front page of the NYT but still think its editors should be hanged for treason because Fox “News” says they should.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:10 pmScooter Libby — a staunch neocon in his own right — wrote to her about how much he admired her and urged her to “come back to work — and life.”
Sounds like maybe she was the inspiration for the sex-with-bear scenes in his sick novel.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:11 pmAnd Miller’s advice from Obama’s neocon, Dennis Ross, special envoy for the Persian Gulf?
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraq-20030319.htm
Look at the names on the bottom of the PNAC letter. You’ll find neocon Dennis Ross.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:13 pmIran has not forgotten 1953 Iranian coup d’état by US over oil which may be the root origin of problems concerning Iran.
I will bet every idiot spewing hatred towards Iran has no clue in the immoral part US has played and created the conflict.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:21 pm.
Has Judy seen…
… Kill The Messenger, yet?
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March 6th, 2009 at 6:28 pmHey miller look what spewing neocon talking points got ya prison time…but then again mabey she met that special someone behind bars and just cant wait for a reason to get back….in her next articule IRAN determined to blow up the white house they told me so I know and Im not gonna tell ya who told me now way no how….he you guys hurry up I got me a date at teh blue bar hotel
March 6th, 2009 at 6:29 pmThe other reason for a short time line on Iran?
Elections! Iran has a reformer on the ticket, the same man who offered a peace leaf to President Bush in 2003.
It’s hard to bomb Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facilities under a newly elected reformer.
They need tester Ahmadinejad.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:33 pmIf mccain was a president we were getting ready go to war in iran, even we are still in iraq and Afghanistan, thank god obama is president.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:40 pmIt wouldn’t matter to me if Miller were 100% right. She is part of what went wrong during the past eight years. Many of the Bushies are coming out of the woodwork or rather lik phoenixes from the ashes. I say smack them down. They had their chance for the right path for this country and they chose Bush.
I don’t want to hear ANYONE from the Bush era telling us what we need to do or not do, especially the amoral Rove.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:42 pmYou f ucking b!tch — crawl back in your hole.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:50 pmI am thinking it might be snowing. Is it Zooey?
March 6th, 2009 at 6:52 pmI really don’t give a DAMN what any of these warmongers want, think, talk about, dream of, or write about UNLESS and that’s a big UNLESS,
EACH AND EVER ONE goes into the war they crave on the front lines themselves.
Until then I wish they would STHU.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:57 pmSTFU judy, you are a criminal.
repugs are scraping a hole into the bottom of their barrel.
what’s next?
March 6th, 2009 at 7:07 pmNeocons never die, and apparently they don’t fade away either!
March 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pmdbadass Says:
I am thinking it might be snowing. Is it Zooey?
March 6th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Is my crankiness that obvious? :-D
Actually, it’s just really icy.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pmSo, Judith Miller wants America to fight another war for Israel. Does that mean that she or any of her family and friends are ready to pick up a rifle to kill Iranian men, women and children? Or does she expect others to do the dirty work for her and her Zionist friends.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:13 pmwho’s cares what a stenographer has to say about anything????
March 6th, 2009 at 7:14 pmThey are claiming low 50’s for tomorrow in these parts… Be careful on the ice my friend!
March 6th, 2009 at 7:14 pmShe is another John Bolton ,who joked recently about nuking Chicago,but without a thick mustache.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:15 pmOnly buffoons are watching faux news. They no longer serve the public interest, revoke their license.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:37 pmWhy is this Bush asswipe getting prime time? She’s a total loser and sycophant bootlicking lockstepper.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:42 pmJudith was a tool used by the Bush crime family to lie us into an unnecessary, immoral, and unlawful war in Iraq. She now works on FAUX.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:43 pmGee I don’t know Judy.
We could try giving you to them first.
:|
That might work.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:48 pmHey judi, Ms Suleman said you can stay with her…
Would that be enough publicity for you, ho?
March 6th, 2009 at 7:52 pmShe is another John Bolton ,who joked recently about nuking Chicago,but without a thick mustache.
Scooter says she has a thick mustache, just not on her face. Evidently, it makes her look like a bear.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:52 pmMan, she’s looking good. I wonder who paid for her face-lift? This criminal is 60 years old and looks like she in her 30’s.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:59 pmWoe to the nation that cannot prove a negative.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:59 pmdisgraced New York Times reporter turned Fox News analyst Judith Miller.
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I hope that ugly mutt drams of caskets and dead soldiers every night.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:00 pmjudi, please hold down the crowds you draw.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:07 pmWhich F**ing Iranian Nuclear Weapons??
Jeez, every time one of these idiots claims that “everybody knows that Iran is developing nuclear weapons” I’m wondering if they have special super X-ray vision or some shit like that.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:22 pmMy question is why isn’t she back in jail for obstruction and conspiracy? She is just another bushite stooge.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:31 pmShe wants to bomb Iran for “trying to have relations with the world”??!!
Thank God that the neocons are not in the White House. I only wish that a few of them were in the Big House by now…
March 6th, 2009 at 8:47 pmAlthough there is a lot of tough talk coming from Iran, I reject the myth that Iran is this reckless nation that wants to nuke the world.
I would remind people that during the Iraq-Iran war Saddam used WMD’s against Iran and Iran restrained themselves from retaliating in the same manner.
When you think about Iran you have to consider that their society is not as ideological and adverse to democracy as say a Russia.
They actually have a significant Jewish community that lives in relative peace, and until recent history, Israel used to do business with Iran.
You also have to consider that the Iranian leadership is made up of a home grown movement that overthrew the U.s./Israeli backed Shah.
So they are a proud people who may feel like the U.S. And Israeli government may want retaliation (after all these year).
Everything must be done to quell Irans fear of it’s surroundings.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:53 pmJudy, Judy, Judy,
You get “The Good Old College” F for your efforts at the truth! And you know what F stand for right? It’s not Failure which you certainly are. It’s what the reich wingers like you have done to this nation. So here’s and F 4 U.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:56 pmhad enough Says:
Iran has not forgotten 1953 Iranian coup d’état by US over oil which may be the root origin of problems concerning Iran.
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Don’t forget to share some of that blame w/ the Brits… mebbe if BP hadn’t refused to show the Iranias the books…
March 6th, 2009 at 9:07 pmJudy, Karl, Dick, Dubya, Condy, Rummy, Scooter, Bolton, Pearl, and all of that ilk should be in the first wave.
March 6th, 2009 at 9:24 pmPeace on earth is worth all the college trys it takes.
March 6th, 2009 at 9:37 pmAnd anyone should listen to her because…?
March 6th, 2009 at 9:47 pmThere is no legal justification for taking military action against Iran.
March 6th, 2009 at 10:28 pmBecause, of course, Iran is not going to negotiate with the US. Comrade Obama’s efforts will fail and Iran will build a bomb and then the US or Israel will have to act. That is, if, the US is still around due to Comrade Obama’s effots.
March 6th, 2009 at 10:32 pmOne
March 6th, 2009 at 10:33 pmBig
Ass
Mistake,
America!
So, either we bomb them before they get a nuke….or they bomb USA after they get a nuke…which do you prefer?
March 6th, 2009 at 10:53 pmWhile empires go to Afghanistan to die propagandists go to THE TABLOID to retire
March 6th, 2009 at 10:58 pmoneward Says:
So, either we bomb them before they get a nuke….or they bomb USA after they get a nuke…which do you prefer?
They said that about N Korea as well, and Pakistan and other countries and we had 40 years of nuclear fear during the cold war and still the chicken littles scramble about clucking the only word they know..fear.
March 6th, 2009 at 10:59 pmI am unsure if I should spell out kooky or zany…
March 6th, 2009 at 11:07 pmI’m so surprised that this woman is on Fox News…
I wonder how Scooter Libby’s aspens are doing also…
March 6th, 2009 at 11:17 pmDidn’t Judith Miller take out her skating competitor by hiring a thug to cap her knee with a tire iron?
Oh, right. That was Tanya Harding.
Hard to tell them apart.
March 6th, 2009 at 11:22 pmor they bomb USA after they get a nuke…which do you prefer?
Can we say “false choice dichotomy”, anyone?
March 6th, 2009 at 11:23 pmShe’s baaack! Run for your lives.
March 7th, 2009 at 1:04 amSince when does a corrupt reporter get to give Foreign Policy advice?
March 7th, 2009 at 2:38 am#57, Matters of war advice no less!
March 7th, 2009 at 6:32 amI am apalled at the amount of hate and lack of tolerance for other peope’s viewpoints I see here.
March 7th, 2009 at 7:23 am#59. It is not hate and intolerance for other people’s viewpoints, it is hate and intolerance for government stenographers, propagandists and disinformation disseminators such as Judith Miller.
March 7th, 2009 at 8:09 amSo it’s Iraq Part Two after all. The West wants total control of Iran’s oil,, ALL the ME oil, and theyve been harping on WMDs all along to get at it. (Never mind Israel’s destabilizing WMDs!) If I were an Iranian official I’d be working overtime to get a bomb in view of the aggressive, avaricious and monstrous crappola coming from mouths such as Miller’s (the Big Liar).
March 7th, 2009 at 8:52 amLooks Like Obama is gonna have us into Iran. Here’s the really interesting part…will all his followers cheer on his war mongering or treat him with disdain and disgust as they did Bush the Lesser?
…and on a side note, did anyone notice that Obama CAVED IN to the insurance lobby (as I had predicted) on Thursday? He has officially rejected ANY talk of a single payer national healthcare reform bill. MORE HMOs on the way folks, and you’ll be FORCED to buy them or else…
March 7th, 2009 at 8:53 amI am surprised that people on this thread are calling Obama “Comrade” Obama. Obama’s administration is fascist, very little difference from Bush’s. Obama is remaining in Iraq for at least the next THREE full years with at least 100K combat troops (50K regulars + 50 or more mercenaries not to be called “combat troops”) he is privatizing Social Security (”universal tax-free savings accounts”) his healthcare reform is HMO mandates, just wait and see. His Palestinian policy is EXACTLY that of Bush. Even Romero of the ACLU recently said Obama was “more of the same”.
March 7th, 2009 at 9:10 amit’s time for judy miller and her ilk to step up to the plate, put down their pon-poms, pick up a rifle and lead the charge into battle. *side note-without proper body armor and in humvees with insufficient armor.
March 7th, 2009 at 9:11 amDepends on how you look at it.
Under pressure from Progressive Democrats of America, Physicians for a National Health Program, Unions for Single Payer Health Care and the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare, Rep. John Conyers Will Attend Obama’s Health Care Forum.
Doesn’t that mean Obama has “caved in” to the single-payer lobby?
The Great Republican Depression
March 7th, 2009 at 9:12 amNo matter how poorly people like Miller do their jobs, they keep popping their ugly heads back up.
March 7th, 2009 at 9:15 amif we would just nuke iran. like the rep. want to this so called middle east crisis would send a message to the rest of the towel heads we meen buisness
March 7th, 2009 at 9:55 amkevin the numerical numbnuts flagged (repeatedly) for being an imbecilic extremist hate monger.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:09 amkevin666end,
You call Muslims towel heads. What do you call Jews?
March 7th, 2009 at 10:27 amIt looks like Obama and Hillary are just continuing the zionist driven U.S. foreign Policy. I don’t understand why Dennis Ross, a zionist and co-founder of AIPAC is the special envoy for the Persian Gulf region!?!??! His job is to use American resources (money and lives) for the benefit of Israel. Where is the CHANGE? we are still talking about the failed carrot and stick strategy. The Iranians have said, that carrot and stick is for donkeys. They want negotiations based on mutual respect and without preconditions.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:43 amWhy is the use of force still an option? There has been no evidence that Iran is developing nukes. We need to stop the fear mongers in either one of the parties. Hillary is also acting as if Iran is a real threat to us. She is also just advancing AIPAC’s interests.
Judith Miller is nothing but a lying opportunistic warmongering Likudnik.
(I wonder if Bernie Madoff got to her…)
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March 7th, 2009 at 10:48 amJust check out her biography on wikipedia
Judith Miller is a jewish zionist. Her loyalty is to Israel and not to the U.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller_(journalist)
March 7th, 2009 at 10:56 amif we would just nuke iran. like the rep. want to this so called middle east crisis would send a message to the rest of the towel heads we meen buisness
— I think this idea needs further examination. The premise is so absurd yet that pales in the face of the bizarre way this absurd thought was delivered to us. Maybe the author would like to discuss it.
March 7th, 2009 at 11:27 amJudith earned her fightin’wings spewing lies and drivel that
helped turned Americans into terrorized serfs. She fostered the mind-set that Middle Eastern nations were so evil, unenlightened and unworthy of trust that the only sane relationship is one of military conquest. She is not a journalist, she is an operative. And she permanently lowered the public’s view of NYT (along with many others).
Judith will live out her working years on Republican Welfare, fantasizing of a return to the good-old-days when Prince Charming Ahmed Chalabi might claim her as his Mesopotamian queen/mistress. Perhaps Curveball will take her….
March 7th, 2009 at 1:04 pmJudith wanted people to know that just because she was a Zionist nut-job (aka traitor), it did not affect her fair and balanced opinions.
March 7th, 2009 at 2:19 pmYeah, right. With a predispositon toward military action I don’t see how a “good college try” is possible. This is warmed over Bush in the lead up to Iraq. Does anybody believe that Bush gave it the good college try before invading Iraq? No, the good college try was in fitting the intelligence to the policy, i.e., the invasion of Iraq. Miller has obviously not learned the lesson of Iraq, otherwise she wouldn’t be making such a fool of herself today.
March 7th, 2009 at 4:49 pmWhat part of this did you not understand?
March 7th, 2009 at 4:51 pm“I’m with the president on this one,” she said
Con10tious Says:
Because, of course, Iran is not going to negotiate with the US. Comrade Obama’s efforts will fail and Iran will build a bomb and then the US or Israel will have to act. That is, if, the US is still around due to Comrade Obama’s effots.
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My GOD you are ignorant. First we have no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons and there is a step there that CANNOT be hidden remember we busted N Korea during that step. The Supreme leader of Iran the Iatollah Khameini put a Fatwa on nuclear weapons saying no country has a right to have them making it a virtual political impossibility for them to make them. Our intelligence agencies say unamimously they have stopped their nuclear program and you are a brainwashed moron for repeating the idiocy Rush told you to repeat with your Obama acronym. Dont you get embarassed that you are too stupid to think for yourself? We get that you are a moron and thinking is hard but having a radio screechmonkey do your thinking for you would be humiliating to anyone with a shred of self respect. So you are too stupid to be taken seriously as you rant the delusions someone else put in your empty and useless head you moron.
March 7th, 2009 at 5:30 pmoneward Says:
So, either we bomb them before they get a nuke….or they bomb USA after they get a nuke…which do you prefer?
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Hey MORON you do realize that a false dichotomy is a logical fallacy by definition dont you? Are you so stupid you DIDNT know that?
March 7th, 2009 at 5:32 pmkevin666end Says:
Oh my GOD another psychotic moron advocating genocide because he is a bedwetting coward afraid of what he has been TOLD to be afraid of. Gets some self respect you ignorant piece of garbage.
March 7th, 2009 at 5:36 pmI am really encouraged by reading all these comments. We can not allow another unjustified war on behalf of AIPAC zionists and Israel.
I found a very good article by Robert Dreyfuss:
“Hillary, Iran, Dennis and Israel”
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=30821
March 7th, 2009 at 9:48 pmhmmm didn’t know Miller was a military tactician. Did she train at West Point?
March 7th, 2009 at 9:57 pm#60
March 8th, 2009 at 8:56 amHate and intolerance is hate an intolerance no matter the target and much of it here is aimed at other posters.
*78
March 8th, 2009 at 9:06 amIs it really necessary to try to degrade someone else to state your view. Please state your sources….I seem to recall recent news that Iran does indeed now have enough fissal material to build a bomb, source for the fatwa? sources that all intelligence agencies agree Iran is not trying to build a bomb?
Just what we need; more advice from a right wing shill, a.k.a. Libby’s squeeze, who was wrong on Iraq. Miller aided & abetted Bushco to get us into the illegal mess in the first place, then tried to wash her rep clean from compliance by unnecessarily taking herself to ‘jail’. Now, she expects us to forget and accept, indeed ask for her Fuc$!ing worthless opinion.
Oh hell no.
Get lost Miller, this is one lib who doesn’t forget.
March 8th, 2009 at 12:52 pm#59
Perhaps you are a historical revisionist and would like us all to forget the illegality, murder (of U.S. personnel & Iraqi civilians due to the illegal war), highway robbery of the american taxpayer via no-bid contracts, destruction of our national economy as a result of the financial drain of the illegal war, loss of international standing, gutting of our Constitution in order to consolidate power, et. al, ad infinitum, ad nauseum, so on and so forth, etc, due to the Iraq war and the culpability of people to agree, AGREE, to be scared $h!+less by the Thief in Chief and his corrupt, criminal cohorts.
You would apologize for Miller’s contribution to aiding and abetting the hypocrites, liars and thieves who ‘ran’ this country (into the ground) for the last eight years.
Not so fast.
Laying blame where it belongs is a necessary step in the process of retribution. I, for one, won’t agree to forget, just because some people won’t have the balls to remember.
March 8th, 2009 at 1:00 pmJudith Miller? Judith Miller? Where have i heard that name before?
Oh, yeah….the woman who was a MOUTHPIECE for the neocon’s and who spewed LIES and MISINFORMATION that took us into iraqnam…..
and who helped OUT our own CIA operative who was dealing with non-proliferation of nukes in iran……and did so to exact revenge on those who spoke truth about the iraq misinformation….
Who would listen to this LIAR/DUPE??
March 9th, 2009 at 9:42 amEvergreen2U Says:
hmmm didn’t know Miller was a military tactician. Did she train at West Point?
March 7th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I believe she might have been “trained” at hallichainy’s shadow govt “bunker”….eh?
March 9th, 2009 at 9:44 amWTF? Why does it seem like every GOP wing nut out there wants us to attack Iran? What is in it for them if we had too? I mean, Condi, Bolton, this wing nut here among others, it is almost like they have something invested in us going to war with Iran.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:37 amnlt Says:
intelligence agencies agree Iran is not trying to build a bomb?
From this US Government Report.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:38 pmLuis M
March 10th, 2009 at 11:42 pmI seem to recall there was recently an “oops, we mis-spoke” both from the U.S. and world’s oversight agencies. There seemed to be a question as to accuracy of the 2007 report.