David Martin from CBS: on CSPan (9:05 a.m.) answering a variety

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of questions about Iraq.
He does not attend press conferences because you just become the carrier for their sound bites.

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1. Rumsfeld is very self-confident about handling press conferences.n/t

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2. Who is he? Details? please explain.

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3. All I know is what appears on C-Span:

Call-In
The War in Iraq
C-SPAN, Washington Journal
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 181394 - 3 - 04/16/2004 - 1:00 - No Sale



Martin, David, Correspondent, CBS




The guest talks about the situation in Iraq, the possible request for more troops and other international issues.

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8. he's the national security correspondent for cbs.

last time he was on someone called in and asked about pnac.

martin said he never heard of pnac.

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4. Talking about Chalabi: visited Iran before and after the war.

The CIA and the State Dept. were uncomfortable with him; the Pentagon might finally give up on him.

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5. Extension of stay for Reserves and Soldiers:

Terrible. The question of influence on morale. The army is telling relatives not to tell the press about the water heater breaking, etc. and not having spouse to help.

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6. He is a Pentagon reporter n/t

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7. David Kay said that all of us were wrong. WMD. Huge and still

unexplained mistake.

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9. The 9/11 commission has been a rout for Bush. Now the

MI5 is an attempt to be ahead of the curve.
The failure to protect the US was a colossal failure you got to fix.

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10. Caller: we made DEFINITIVE STATEMENTS ABOUT

WMDs. We know where they are, etc.
No smoking gun was evident.

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11. Who is driving the commission: the staff or the commissioners?

Staff is, but commissioners are getting a handle on the information.

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12. Did he have anything to say about the conflict of interest of Zelikow?

That is the most egregious thing about the commission, IMHO.

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14. No. I think he wants to live....n/t

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13. Pentagon, in private, agrees that Iraq's flareup is a real mess

which as undone much of what was achieved before.

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15. Now we are bogged down because is door-to-door fighting. n/t

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17. Oh, is that what they call it,"door to door," when they send in the

gunships? Fallujah, gunships went in again today, Bloomberg News(Reuters.)

NO effort to get the ones who perpetrated the killing and dismembering. Just collective punishment, which is a WAR CRIME.

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16. Caller trying to smear Kerry's purple hearts!!!

Martin says there is no evidence of fraudulence for the purple hearts.

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18. A man whose child died last year in Iraq said "we have to continue"

and then they tried to prove that people in the military are not poor, disadvantaged, or minorities (implication majority is white and middle class? anybody has the statistics?)

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19. Woodward: the only official who speaks for attribution is Bush! n/t

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20. Agent who reported Saddam was in bunker the first day...

(when they thought they got him) Agent on the ground said bunder in arabic but bunker can mean basement or ground floor. Again the language problem!

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21. Woodward saying that Rumsfeld got Bush* orders to prepare attack

Iraq in Nov. of 2000? (I am not sure I heard correctly)
He remembers notes the day after 9/11 notes saying attack SH at the same time as UBL (I guess Rumsfeld calls him Usama)

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22. Revelation: april 2001 was holding an exercise: shooting down

an airliner flying into the Pentagon. That scenario was turned dow as unrealistic!