Cheese-eating surrender monkeys
Via Lucianne - I have to go, so no commentary:
Iâm afraid that if you didnât see the December 18, 2003, episode of Envoyé Spécial on France2, you wonât believe what follows. I saw it, and Iâm not sure I believe it myself. The program was touted during prime-time news as the full story of the arrest of Saddam Hussein. Aha!, I thought. Letâs see how they are going to tell it, or spin it, or doctor it.
It was doctored all right. The original version of the special â announced in that weekâs TV guides â was bumped. You can understand why: By December 18, this special on the difficulties (or, more accurately, the impossibility) of finding Saddam had a shelf life of minus four days. Yet with atmosphere shots of the Tigris at sunset â and an American colonel, with an Arab falcon on his wrist, standing in beautifully angled sunlight on the terrace of a fabulous palace â the special was just too good to be scrapped outright. And who could turn down its superb military analysis? Of course that colonel will never find his quarry: All those GIs in top-secret operations rooms staring into computer screens are no match for Saddam.
So the special was "updated."....
Posted by: Anonymous2U 2004-01-06 |