Why I Love Australians
Michael Ware is an Australian journalist working for CNN. He’s been in Iraq for four years, and is considered among the top journalists covering the ongoing clusterfuck. John McCain’s been making some silly comments about how much better Iraq is these days - that you can walk through the neighborhoods, Army commanders can go out of the Green Zone without armored humvees - that sort of thing. I guess Wolf Blitzer must have been annoyed when McCain told him, “I think you ought to catch up” because Wolf went straight to Ware for the scoop:
Well, I’d certainly like to bring Sen. McCain up to speed if he ever gives me the opportunity. And if I have any difficulty hearing you right now Wolf, that’s because of the helicopters circling overhead and the gun battle that is blazing away just a few blocks down the road.
The rest of the interview goes on with Ware barely able to contain his laughter about McCain’s statements. I think there’s something about growing up in a country where all the animals can (and want to) kill you that makes you able to chuckle about a gun battle raging down the road. That or four years of gun battles down the road.
ThinkProgress has the video. It’s awesome.
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June 28th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
You obviously don’t read Andrew Bolt’s enlightening opinion piece in the HUN, the only article telling it like it is!
Or are you one of these Saddam apologists? Don’t you see that the Iraqis are better off being shot by democratic soldiers, instead of dictatorial ones?
On the topic of the Honourable (are US senate members refered to as honourable, or is this just a pretence of our wonderful Westminster system) Senator McCain; is he deliberately skewing his image to that of Colonel Sanders, or is this just a coincidence?
July 2nd, 2007 at 10:27 am
Aw, I don’t think he’s going to be a candiate much longer anyway. He has a new trip to Iraq planned this week. That should go well.