Granny going to Iraq - At 60, she'll 'get message out about good things'

[Barrett808]

Granny going to Iraq
At 60, she'll 'get message out about good things'
By William Croyle
Enquirer staff writer

ALEXANDRIA - When Suzanne Fournier tells people where she's going, the 60-year-old wife, mother and grandmother always gets the same reaction: disbelief.

"They say, 'You're doing what?' " Fournier said.

"Yes, I'd be crazy if I wasn't a little apprehensive, but I'm comfortable with it. I want to help those who need help."

Fournier will depart for Iraq on Aug. 28.

...

She's especially eager to work with the Iraqi media so it can tell information to civilians.

"There was so much devastation when we got there," she said. "Not so much from the war, but from neglect for so many years. But it's just mind-boggling to see what's in place now."

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050815/NEWS0103/508150332

[Catch22Dem]

1. She's SIXTY???

Well, she looks pretty damn good. She seems pretty damn naive to me though. I think she's in for an education!

[tblue37]

22. If she leaves the Green Zone she will be kidnapped.

And then. . . .

[Javaman]

25. took the words out of my mouth...

yeah, she'll report on all the good the military is doing for all the rich and privileged in the green zone.

Tell her to walk 2 miles outside the zone to Sadr city. She wants to see what is going on, go there, but somehow I just don't think she wants to see "ugly" stuff.

I hope her little trip washes the shit out her eyes.

colossal failure*

[Jane Austin]

30. Hey, Sixty is the new Forty! :)

n/t

[Massacure]

43. Peter Jennings was 67 when he died, and he went to Iraq.

This means that he could not have been any less old than 65.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

2. Kool-aid and Metamucil. Mm-mm good!

[Webster Green]

3. Boy, is she in for a surprise!

She's obviously a brainwashed bush-bot.

Going to Iraq to seek out the good things happening there. That's whacky! Get her medicated quickly.

[despairing optimist]

4. Another snuff film in the making, I'm afraid

There used to be a soda shop in Hollywood where movie-star wannabes would hang out in hopes of being discovered. If this granny hangs out on a Sadr City streetcorner, she'll be discovered all right, and I don't want to know what will happen next.

[Cha]

5. Let's hope she doesn't get her

damn head blown off before she can come up with some fucking "good things" about Iraq.

Geesh, some people's brainwashing is just COMPLETE!

[Miss Chybil]

44. I was thinking, "I hope she doesn't get her head CUT off."

And I hope none of our troops get assigned the duty to protect her. They've got enough on their minds without having to prop up a propagandist.

[Barrett808]

6. We never heard back from the "Truth Tour"

Wonder if Mrs. Fournier will be similarly silent after experiencing the horrifying reality of Iraq.

[Rainscents]

9. I don't think she'll have very big smile on her face after she put her

foot in Iraq. I give her credit for doing this, however, she is in for rude awakening!

[mbperrin]

11. What DID happen to the Truth Tour?

I saw them at the bbq in Tampa, then pffftt!!

[Jacobin]

16. Good question. That one went down the memory hole

Either they didn't go, or they went and they don't want to talk about it

:rofl:

[Barrett808]

19. I read here at DU that they broadcast for one day from a tent...

...in the Green Zone. Then left, I guess.

[tblue37]

23. They stayed in the Green Zone and talked to the soldiers

that were selected for them to talk to (like the way Bush talks to preselected groups). Then they came home and bragged about how wonderful it all was.

[Barrett808]

24. Do we have any links on this?

I haven't seen anything.

[tblue37]

28. James Wolcott blogged about it shortly after they

returned. That entry is probably archived by now, so if you can't find it, email him and ask about it.

Here is his blog URL
http://jameswolcott.com

[Barrett808]

36. Is this the Wolcott post you were thinking of?

For months the Couch Potato Pattons have been telling us loud and clear that despite all the gloom-mongering, the US was doing better in Iraq than the loathed MSM was letting Americans know (Rich Lowry even was bold enough to issue a proclamation on the cover of the National Review cover story claiming, "We're Winning"), that there was a wealth of good news that was being deliberately unreported, and that our soldiers knew the real story, saw truer and deeper into what was happening than those elite editors in NY and DC vegetating behind their computer screens. Michael Graham, a rightwing radio host who has just returned with his fellow full mooners from the "Truth Tour" of Iraq, brought home the gospel he had heard in that troubled land to the readers of National Review Online.

"Again and again, from 'white-collar' soldiers working in the relative safety of Camp Victory at the Baghdad airport to the "real" soldiers patrolling Route Irish (a.k.a the 'Highway of Death'), I heard that America and their Iraqi-army allies are winning the war against the insurgents. I was told again and again by the soldiers themselves that their (our) cause is just, the strategy is working, and the enemy they fight represents evil itself.

"In other words, I heard things seldom heard on CBS or read in the pages of the New York Times."

The Sunday pages of The New York Times must have brought Michael Graham only further confirmation that what he heard over there is the plain truth and what he reads over here is fancy hogwash. Denying the enveloping disaster in Iraq is how he maintains his membership in the marching band of useful idiots.

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http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/07/sunday_bloody_s.php

[The_Casual_Observer]

51. Not much bragging, pretty subdued.

I think they were pretty shaken up by the whole thing.

[longship]

7. Yes, Suzanne! You and your guest

will be vacationing for two sun-filled weeks in beautiful Darfur. Enjoy the beach. Get a tan. Get blown up.

on edit: Or, do you want what's behind Door #3?

[grytpype]

8. Good luck Granny!

Take a good stroll around outside the Green Zone, get a good look at all the progress and good news there is to see.

Just make sure your will is up to date.

[GoldenOldie]

10. I wanna see Granny shopping outside the Green Zone.

If she truly wants to help the media, she will have to be able to walk the streets, talk to the peoples, throughout Iraq.

Granny will come home and tell one and all just how lovely all is in Iraq......what a bunch of crap.

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[deadparrot]

13. Well, good luck to her.

May she stay safe.

I don't think she'll find what she expects if she truly gets into the heart of Iraq, but hey...to each his (or her) own.

[ET Awful]

14. Not so much from the war?

I guess this lady thinks buildings blow themselves up on a regular basis.

[Jacobin]

15. Can't wait to hear from her when/if she gets back

It should be very interesting to see and hear what she has to say, assuming she doesn't just stay in the Green Zone

[bribri16]

17. Does she know how beautiful Iraq was BEFORE Desert Storm?

The devastation was devastation caused by 12 years of sanctions and carpet bombings during Desert Storm.

[rocktivity]

18. And why shouldn't the U.S. rebuild Iraq's schools, hosptials, roads, etc?

They're the one who blew them up. And how much of the action are contractors getting verus the Corps of Engineers?

:headbang:
rocknation

[Barrett808]

20. Devastation "Not so much from the war" -- nice denial

She'll probably lose that in a hurry.

[DrZeeLit]

26. Another shill for * -- "Saddam devastated Iraq".... nice try...

...how about Shock and Awe?

Oh yeah... that was just a fireworks show. No civilians killed and we only hit Saddam's palace. Or so my mom says.

Sheesh.

[6000eliot]

21. Are they planting all of these stories

a la "Wag the Dog?"

[DS1]

27. I hope she can afford the 10,000 shuttle fee from Baghdad Intl to the

Green Zone.

Otherwise it's chunks of granny on the highway via IED

[Jacobin]

31. I heard it was $30,000 for the cab ride

things must be getting BETTER, its down to $10,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[neuvocat]

29. She ain't crazy, she's fuckin' stupid.

She really thinks that she's going to help shape perceptions of how people will perceive the U.S., which is nothing less than an occupation. She's a woman and her gender by default will be put off by a male-dominated society. Apparently this never crossed her mind and at her age that's no excuse for being a freakin' idiot.

[Cocoa]

32. she's not a granny, she's a PR professional

with a penchant for keeping information from the public...

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:Pcci7dtbzogJ:www.govtech.net/magazine/story.php%3Fid%3D13175%26reprint%3D1+%22Suzanne+Fournier%22++army+%22public+relations%22&hl=en

Such instructions have so far resulted in the closing of information about bridges and dams, the location of water mains and aerial photographs of government facilities. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took down information about locks and dams on the Ohio River. Corps spokesman Suzanne Fournier told the Cincinnati Enquirer, "We did that to protect the American public."


http://www.nben.ca/egroups/groupnews/groupnews_archives/03/incineration.htm

The JACADS incineration experience has demonstrated that accidental releases of
live chemical warfare agents into the environment can be expected with this
technology. On March 2, 1995, a "small" amount of nerve agent was detected outside of the
JACADS facility. This is the third publicly known release of lethal warfare agent at the facility.
Chemical and Biological Defense Agency spokeswoman Suzanne Fournier responded to this
release by saying, "There is such a (small) trace that quite frankly I have problems with this
information getting out ."11

[girl gone mad]

46. Good find.

She really is a good little brownshirt, isn't she?

I find it very suspicious that a spokeswoman for the Chemical and Biological Defense Agency is taking a trip to Iraq to do PR work.

[Barrett808]

48. Good find, indeed n/t

[Lochloosa]

33. Stay out of Prison over there..I here there not the place to be...

just saying

[Cocoa]

34. my email to this reporter

Dear Willam,

Your article on Suzanne Fournier makes it sound like this is a personal project of hers.

Since Fournier is a public relations professional for the Army, it sounds like it's more likely she's going in an offical capacity, in a public relations role for the Army.

Nothing wrong with that, if it's so, but an article about her mission should make that clear. Your readers would be paying for her trip, and Fournier would be working on our behalf (in theory).

Thank you,

[Barrett808]

53. Nice, thanks for putting all that together. n/t

[Scurrilous]

35. Granny Feelgood's Good Things About Iraq:

1) No electricity and no water = reduced utility bills for the Iraqi consumer.

:thumbsup:

[dchill]

37. Good things ARE happening...

for Halliburton.

[karlrschneider]

38. So she's an employee of the Army out to catapault the propaganda.

Got it.
:eyes: :grr:

[leesa]

39. She hasn't been there but she knows the following:

"There was so much devastation when we got there," she said. "Not so much from the war, but from neglect for so many years. But it's just mind-boggling to see what's in place now."

What a twit. She'll have her eyes opened wide.

[Zenlitened]

40. That's my question, too. How do these republi-bots "know"...

... there are "good things" happening over there? I've posed that question to several 'pukes, who admitted they had no relatives -- military or civilian -- in Iraq or anywhere else in the Mideast, no acquaintances, not even friends-of-friends.

Naturally, I got no answer to my question. Your never do, when confronting these brainwashed idiots with logic and facts.

But nevertheless, they all "know" that the "good news" is not being reported... by the "liberal media," of course.

These people have set a new standard for stupidity -- willful, proud, loud-mouthed, cross-eyed-and-frothing ignorance. It would be funny if they weren't being let out of the house with no adult supervision. :crazy:

[Olney Blue]

41. Granny Get Your Gun!

A new musical coming to your local dinner theater....

[lumpy]

42. Granny works for US Army Corps of

Engineers, she is now on propaganda detail.

[nodehopper]

45. two things

a. devastation NOT FROM THE WAR? oh, okay, cluster bombs are just nice toys for children

b. this poor old goose that just lay the PR golden egg would do well to remember Margaret Hassan, who was actually educated, informed, and spent all of her life helping the Iraqi people and was kidnapped and executed for her troubles.

[daleo]

47. If she works for the army, it is no wonder she denies war caused damage

The propaganda efforts get more desperate every day. Support for the war in polls (the government polls that don't get released) must be scraping bottom.

[dave123williams]

49. That is a silly woman...

I hope she doesn't get killed for dissolousionment...

[The_Casual_Observer]

50. They will have her head cut off in 5 minutes

and "we don't care".

[VegasWolf]

52. I'd be DAMNED if I would go an inch out of my way to prop up the

Bush regime.

[Barrett808]

54. Well, it's her job

Professional propagandist.