CNN's John Roberts re: Iraq "The place is a mess. It's an absolute mess"

[sabra]

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/cnn%20anchor%20calls%20iraq%20a%20mess_1014725

CNN ANCHOR CALLS IRAQ "A MESS"

CNN correspondent John Roberts, who recently returned from Iraq, says that U.S. television has been unable to convey the extent of the chaos that currently wracks that country. "The place is a mess. It's an absolute mess," Roberts told The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz on CNN's Reliable Sources. "There is nowhere you can go in the Baghdad area as a Western journalist without an escort, where you could feel safe from being kidnapped, shot at, whatever. The amount of death that's on the streets of Baghdad for U.S. forces and for the Iraqi people is at an astronomical level." Roberts said that he saw the results of an attack on a Humvee in which the U.S. soldier seated in the passenger seat was "disintegrated" by the projectile. He said he watched the driver die on the roadside. None of that could be shown on television, Roberts observed. "The pictures on television are sanitized compared to what they are on the ground. ... It's too raw for television. It's too personal for the families who were involved, because the fellow who I saw on the ground, Howie, he was ripped apart. And that's just not the sort of thing that you want a family to know."

[partylessinOhio]

1. The problem from the very beginning was that the media did not or was not

permitted to show the realities of what was happening in Iraq.

To bring this to a prompt end, the death and destruction needs to be shown. I know it is horrific but some people just don't seem to know that war is hell.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. During Vietnam...

we watched the evening news every night. It was real, it was brutal, and it was the truth. I was a young girl and I will never forget the images I saw.

The sanitization of this conflict infuriates me. The public needs to know just what is being done to our troops and the Iraqi people.

War IS hell, and that is why it should only be used as a tool as a last resort

[leftchick]

2. showing graphic photos of dead GIs was okay 35 years ago

It should be done nightly like in Cronkite's day.

[Sapere aude]

3. Per repukes they lost the election because the media painted the wrong picture of Iraq.

[Benhurst]

5. I'm a loyal BushAmerican. I don't want to see such carnage.

My beautiful mind has better things to think about.

I wonder who is going to be on Dancing with the Stars next season. Maybe they could get the Bush twins or even George, himself.

[Why Syzygy]

6. And *'s solution is more money!

And more bodies.

(snipped)
He said it was unlikely Bush would address the issue of any U.S. troop withdrawal. "We're not at the point where the president is going to be in a position to lay out a comprehensive plan," Hadley said. He also said the administration did not believe that the violence in Iraq would turn into a wider regional war between Sunnis and Shiites.

At the NATO summit, Bush is expected to urge alliance members to increase military spending.

http://www.forbes.com/business/energy/feeds/ap/2006/11/27/ap3206657.html

Exactly how long (never) is it going to take him to get a "comprehensive plan"?
Impeach now.