Every night I watch "SPECIAL REPORT" hoping for one of the people on the crew to utter the words...
"WE WERE WRONG"
...& every night it never comes. Tonight, Fred Barnes & Mort Kondracke had basically RNC talking points
- Eventhough over thirty americans have died in the past 72 hours, that's OK in the grand scheme of things
- Just because it's a year a later & we're about to turn control of a COUNTRY over to these people it's normal that we have running gunfights all over the country with them
- Just because Fred Barnes & Mort Kondracke plus Brit Hume have never worn a uniform except JROTC, they know what the military is supposed to do like a 3-star General...Mort Kondracke telling us that its a "limited amount of the population" so its not an uprising(I don't know how many people are involved & neither does Kondracke)
- Fred Barnes coming in with the tactical analysis that this is under control since we aren't in danger of losing (Hey Fred, in Vietnam we weren't in danger of losing either--we were just getting our ass shot off)
- Mort Kondracke tells us that Senators Bird & Kennedy are "OUTRAGEOUS" for comparing Iraq & Vietnam & blame them for sympathizing with Muqtada...According to his rules, we can't oppose before the war, during the war, or a year after the war started because we'll help the enemy
So what happens, Brit kicks it to Mort & Fred who give the opinions ABOVE. At which point Jeff Birnbaum grows a set of balls and tells the crew that they are being naive, that this is a "SERIOUS" situation. At which point Fred shouts him down.