Christiane Amanpour

WTF does she know about fighting a war? Damn these people. They have no sense of history - if these idiots covered the Civil War we'd still have slavery. And if they covered WWII, Hitler would be running the world. Here ya go, Christiane. (sound on)

CNN's top war correspondent Christiane Amanpour now says the Iraq war has been a disaster and has created a "black hole."

Amanpour made the comments Monday evening on the all-news network.

"The Iraq war has been a disaster. It's a spiraling security disaster," Amanpour explains to Larry King. "It just gets worse and worse."

Comments

[carry nation]

Well, as long as it's fair and umbiased,NOT

"The Iraq war has been a disaster. It's a spiraling security disaster," Amanpour explains to Larry King. "It just gets worse and worse."

[Phoenix]

Ooooh. I bet it was a real serious discussion with Larry sinking ever lower and lower into his trousers. CNN should unbolt his suspenders from the floor. Jeeez.... he's such an old man. Ms. Amanpour is too big for her trousers.

[COLUMBO]

The E.I.B. daily total of journalists killed in Iraq. It is time to bring our reporters home. Here are their names (a tribute):

For the record, I support our reporters, but I do not support what they write.

Journalists Killed DAILY TOTAL: 79
• 01.26.06 Mahmoud Zaal (Baghdad TV)

• 11.28.05: Muqdad Muhsin (al-Iraqiya)
• 11.28.05: Aqeel Abdul Ridha (al-Iraqiya)
• 11.07.05: Ahmed Hussein Al-Maliki (Tal Afar Today)
• 10.19.05: Mohammad Harun Hassan (Nabdh Al Shabeb)
• 09.21.05: Ahlam Youssef (al-Iraqiya)
• 09.21.05: Bassem al-Fadli (al-Iraqiya)
• 09.20.05: Firas Maadidi Firas Maadidi (As-Saffir)
• 09.19.05: Fakher Haider (New York Times)
• 08.28.05: Waleed Khaled (Reuters TV)
• 08.27.05: Rafed Mahmoud Said al-Anbagy (Diyala)
• 08.02.05: Steven Vincent (Freelance)
• 07.23.05: Adnan al-Bayati (TG3)
• 07.17.05: Hind Ismail (As-Saffir)
• 07.01.05: Khalid al-Attar (al-Iraqiya)
• 06.30.05: Yasser Salihee (Knight Ridder)
• 06.28.05: Ahmed Wael Bakri shot (al-Sharqiya)
• 06.26.05: Maha Ibrahim (Baghdad TV)
• 06.22.05: Jassim Al Qais (Al Siyada)
• 05.31.05: Jerges Mohammed Sultan (Al-Iraqiya)
• 05.15.05: Najem Abd Khudair (Al-Mada)
• 05.15.05: Ali Jassem Al Rumi (Al Mada)
• 05.15.05: Ahmad Adam (Al-Madaa and Sabah)
• 04.23.05: Saleh Ibrahim (Associated Press Television News)
• 04.15.05: Ahmed al-Rubai'i (Al-Sabah)
• 04.15.05: Shamal Abd Allah Assad (Kirkuk TV)
• 04.14.05: Fadhil Hazem Fadhil (Al-Hurriya)
• 04.14.05: Ali Ibrahim Issa (Al-Hurriya)
• 03.14.05: Hussam Sarsam (Kurdistan TV)
• 03.10.05: Laik Ibrahim Laik Ibrahim (Kurdistan TV)
• 02.25.05: Raeda Mohammed Wageh Wazzan (Iraqiya)
• 02.09.05: Abdul-Hussein Khazal (Alhurra)

• 11.01.04: Dhia Najim (Reuters)
• 11.01.04: Wadallah Sarhan (Akhbar al-Mosul)
• 10.30.04: Nasrallah al-Dawoodi (Kurdish journalist)
• 10.27.04: Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq (al-Sharqiya)
• 10.14.04: Dina Mohammed Hassan (Al-Hurriya)
• 09.12.04: Mazen Tomeizi (Al-Arabiya)
• 08.26.04: Enzo Baldoni (Diario)
• 08.15.04: Mahmoud Hamid Abbas (ZDF)
• 06.03.04: Sahar Saad Eddin Nuami (Al-Mizan, Al-Khaima, Al-Hayat al-Gadida)
• 05.27.04: Kotaro Ogawa Hashida (Freelance)
• 05.27.04: Shinsuke Hashida Shinsuke Hashida (Freelance)
• 05.21.04: Rashid Hamid Wali Wali (Al-Jazeera)
• 05.07.04: Mounir Abdallach Bouamrane (al-Sharqiya)
• 05.07.04: Waldemar Milewicz (al-Sharqiya)
• 04.19.04: Assad Kadhim (Al-Iraqiya)
• 03.26.04: Burhan Mohamed Mazhour Burhan Mohammed al-Louhayabi (ABC)
• 03.18.04: Ali Abdel Aziz (Ali Abdel Aziz)
• 03.18.04: Ali al-Khatib (Ali Abdel Aziz)
• 03.18.04: Nadia Nasrat (Diyala TV)
• 02.01.04: Safir Nader (Qulan TV)
• 02.01.04: Haymin Mohamed Salih (Qulan TV)
• 02.01.04: Ayoub Mohamed (Kurdistan TV)
• 02.01.04: Gharib Mohamed Salih, (Kurdistan TV)
• 02.01.04: Semko Karim Mohyideen (Freelance)
• 02.01.04: Abdel Sattar Abdel Karim (Al Ta’akhy)
• 01.27.04: Duraid Isa Mohammed (CNN)

• 10.28.03: Ahmed Shawkat Shawkat (Bilah Ittijah)
• 08.25.03: Ahmad Kareem Kareem (Kurdistan TV)
• 08.17.03: Jeremy Little (NBC News)
• 08.17.03: Mazen Dana (Reuters)
• 07.05.03: Richard Wild (Freelance)
• 05.08.03: Elizabeth Neuffer (Boston Globe)
• 04.14.03: Mario Podesta (America TV)
• 04.08.03: Jose Couso (Telecinco)
• 04.08.03: Taras Protsyuk Taras Protsyuk (Reuters)
• 04.08.03: Tareq Ayyoub (Al-Jazeera)
• 04.08.03: Veronica Cabrera (America TV)
• 04.07.03: Christian (Focus, Germany)
• 04.07.03: Julio Anguita Parrado (El Mundo)
• 04.06.03: David Bloom (NBC News)
• 04.06.03: Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed (BBC)
• 04.03.03: Michael Kelly (The Atlantic Monthly)
• 04.02.03: Kaveh Golestan (BBC)
• 03.30.03: Gaby Rado (Channel 4 News, Britain)
• 03.22.03: Paul Moran (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
• 03.22.03: Terry Lloyd (Independent Television News)
• 03.20.03: Frederic Nerac (ITN)

[amanpour]

Amanpour was on fire!!!!!!!!

[moldy]

I don't understand this post. Isn't it true that the war is a disaster?

[Josh]

She is a FAR LEFT lying bitch.

[yankee-in-france]

No, moldy, some people haven't caught on yet. What do they say about mass intelligence --- that it is rare indeed.

[AuntB]

...WOOOHOOOO!... you tell 'em sister!

[agent bedhead]

This is depressing. I'm going back to bed. See ya later today, Sir Dan. ;-)

[splashtc]

Well if she can't take the heat...War is hell and this enemy is particularly vicious. It wouldn't be this bad if they were civilized. We have left them alone for too long. We should have dragged them kicking and screaming into the 20th century years ago. We're doing it now and the kids are throwing a temper tantrum. Change is not easy to accept.

[cappuccina]

Actually, Christiane Amanpour is not only very well educated, she is extremely knowledgeable about the Middle East, and the conflicts there...She is absolutely "spot on" in her assessment of things...

Funny how in 2006 someone is actually saying that a knowledgeable and reputable reporteer and writer (one of the few out there) is "too big for her trousers"...

Oh, and can I have a technical definition of what "far left lying bitch" means, please...It would serve y'all much better to give a factual example of her faulty or incorrect reporting than to merely sound like a teenaged girl throwing a tantrum...

Y'all are just like President Bush...quick to use easy epithets to cover up for y'all's lack of knowledge... :)

[Steel]

All wars are disasters to one extent or another.

Some bigger than others. In the grand scheme of things, more Americans will be murdered this year in the top 6 US cities than have died in Iraq since the beginning of the war.

If the so called 'insurgents' were not drawn to Iraq, where do you suppose they would focus their attention?

Egypt? Saudi Arabia? Israel perhaps? The overthrow or destruction of each a stated goal of the radical fundamentalists of Islam.

Each one a terrible loss for us.

At some point, you either fight your battle where YOU want to fight it or allow the enemy to determine the time and place of that battle.

The 'neocons' realize that simple fact. The Milquetoasts that keep wringing their hands and crying 'DISASTER' do not and furthermore, most would not choose to do battle until it came into their living rooms.

Of course. by then, it might very well be too late.

Personally, I'd rather not wait and find out.

[COLUMBO]

She is married to a state dept relic who believes that the elected president and vice president 'hijacked' U.S. foreign policy

[moldy]

"some people haven't caught on yet"

Posted by: yankee-in-france | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 06:30 AM

Please explain.

[yankee-in-france]

--- agreeing with you, mold, that the war is a disaster!

[Patriot]

Oh hell let's hang her! How dare her have an opinon that conflicts with us righties! We won the election, so we are kings for 4 more years. You lefties think we live in a democracy? Wake up, we are taking over the world and will drag you along. On with the CRUSADE!!! Damn women and children their all terrorist......emmm, Excuse me while I take my meds.

[bella]

Actually, Christiane Amanpour is not only very well educated, she is extremely knowledgeable about the Middle East, and the conflicts there...She is absolutely "spot on" in her assessment of things..

I second all that you posted Cappucina. There could not be a more qualified reporter from this part of the world (Brown educated too - was in JFK JR's class). She is no youngster - solid reporter.

[Phoenix]

"(Brown educated too - was in JFK JR's class)."

Well, dang. That takes care of this debate.

[Sgt. York]

RE: "I don't understand this post. Isn't it true that the war is a disaster?"

What fun. Getting f'd-up so a bunch of Iranian-aligned puritanical Shia fundamentalist can have another Islamist Sharia-based pisshole all their own.

[Sgt. York]

RE: "I don't understand this post. Isn't it true that the war is a disaster?"

What fun. Getting f'd-up so a bunch of Iranian-aligned puritanical Shia fundamentalists can have another Islamist Sharia-based pisshole all their own.

[annie]

Don't know why anybody should be surprised that Christianne should be knowledgeable about the Middle East!! She is half Iranian after all!! Where do they get these people from, and allow them to pontificate on wars, when they are clearly not going in there and reporting from an unbiased perspective!! Why don't you go and be a reporter in Iran Christianne and do everybody a favour!!

[Sgt. York]

RE: "She is half Iranian after all!"

Moron. Her father is Bahai [not Moslem] and she attended Catholic School in London as a child. HINT: "Christianne"

What a biggoted moron.
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[CARRY NATION]

Amanpour has every right to express herself in any way she wishes,HOWEVER, is her job to report or to editorialize ?

[cappuccina]

Sgt. York, What'd ya expect? :)

[COLUMBO]

"I don't understand this post. Isn't it true that the war is a disaster?"

Hardly...in historical terms, it has gone remarkably well. It is, after all, a war. The disaster has been created by hysterical reporting which has been itself a disaster.

[moldy]

"Hardly...in historical terms, it has gone remarkably well"

Posted by: COLUMBO | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 07:53 PM

What events in history are you comparing it to?

[BrownUniversityGrad]

and she did not go to brown as someone posted here incorrectly. she went to university of rhode island, but was JFK's roomate along with her husband james rubin who DID attend brown with him

[BrownUniversityGrad]

HINT: "Christianne

bravo to you sgt york. not the sharpest knives in the drawer here

[annie]

Sgt York
If is me you are calling a moron, because I said Christiane is half Iranian, I suggest you get onto her to change her biography then, all her bios are saying she is half Iranian. So, she attended a Catholic school, maybe Cindi Sheehan did as well!! This has nothing to do with whether she is a Muslim or not, it is about influences beyond that, and she is half Iranian.

[yankee-in-france]

So, Annie,let me understand your point -- because she is half-Iranian that means what -- that she isn't an excellent, objective, and knowledgeable reporter and that she should stay in Iran. Wow, what insight you have. And by the way, what does Cindi Sheehan have to do with attending a Catholic school in London?

[COLUMBO]

Some US troops question Woodruff coverage

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060131-041958-8164r

[annie]

Well let's put it this way. I am a Brit, and though I don't agree with everything that is going on here in UK, if you start slanging us off I (and am sure a lot of other Brits) are going to jump straight in and protest. It is called patriotism. This girl has not sold me on being purely objective, that is what I am getting at!, and if you don't like me saying that, you know where to put it!!

[annie]

Oh, and by the way, what sort of person goes around advertising what university they went to. Sad!!!

[yankee-in-france]

Isn't it usually in their bio?

[annie]

There too!!

[Celine Clemont]

you know what..she is just a very bad informed and educated average reporter who has a problem that she is not feminine enough..or could not become an actrise in hollywood. so she lack talents as an artist and uses the screen, pretending she is a reporter..and she covers a few things which is then censored by her main bosses above..and then she gains power..she is married to a the guy called james rubin..so they both made this marriage to gain more power..as he is a secratory for public relations of the US...
she is full of deceit...lies and porpaganda..her research is often set up with the purpose to manupulate the public to get some more awards and get some more fame..the typical cliches about journalists who have no rebelious sense..even her writing and coverage is simple minded..there have been much bigger names in the history of journalism..she is a coward..as she is intelligent enough to know which kind of bulllshit she talks...she lacks depth and real knowledge about historical facts of the countries is reporting about..that has sytematical purpose..its brainwashing..no more..dont take it too serious ...please..read better magazines than CNN.