Erin Burnett Calls Out Paul Bremer After He Tries To Blame Obama Administration For Debacle In Iraq

[Tripper11]

I have to give credit to Erin, she really was relentless on this warmonger, lying scumbag.


Here's 7 minutes of the interview:

This link has the full length interview, I tried to imbed, but couldn't.

http://embed.crooksandliars.com/embed/Q0qfmQE

[cantbeserious]

1. Republicans - Always Crying - Always Blaming Others - Never Take Responsibility

eom

[Botany]

2. I wonder if he really believes the bull shit he is selling?

maybe if we sent another 10 billion in cash on skids things would get better

[Tripper11]

3. Of course he does....

He does, because he's one of the many warmongers that would never imagine having to pick up a gun, and drop down in the sand and fight. It's been said millions of times and will be said millions of times again, it's easy to go to war when you're the one that doesn't have to.
As for blame, never take it, always deflect it.

I'd love to see an anti-war group, using open carry policy to confront every last one of these assholes by catching them on the street, hand them a weapon and a ticket to Iraq...you want war, then you fucking fight it!!!!

[markpkessinger]

25. Truly one of the most frightening character traits of neocons . . .

. . . is their capacity for talking themselves into believing their own lies.

[90-percent]

4. This treacherous cretin got one thing correct.

"Our departure in 2011 was a signal to the Iraqi’s that we were leaving.........."

"Treacherous Cretin" is a Zappa song, and it succinctly sums up the type of people that served in the GWB Cabinet.

Base, stupid, selfish, mendacious, the lot of them. That they managed to execute this clusterfuck Iraq Invasion over the protests of the entire planet is to the eternal shame of all humanity. We elected these fucking imbeciles!

-90% Jimmy

[Jack Rabbit]

16. Correction: We did not elect those treacherous cretins

Our corrupt Supreme Court did.

[90-percent]

5. Additionally

Erin's reporting would have been a lot more courageous if it had been before the invasion. As our media seems to be lazily dredging up the warmongers that created this mess, perhaps they should also revisit their slovenly anti-journalism coverage in the rush to war before the invasion. "Your either with us or with the terra-wrists", said our President, so of course no self respecting journalist of the era would want to be labeled as "with the terra-wrists".

I recall when Erin was with MSNBC, she segued to Chris Matthews, who slobbered all over himself praising Erin's looks, in a dirty old man condescending kind of way. Erin is a stunningly attractive woman, but, boy oh boy is she one big shill for Wall Street and "the establishment". I think that POV comes from her husband, who makes his living on Wall Street. I do not know the specific line of God's work he's involved with.

-90% Jimmy

[qazplm]

19. I dont believe she was a reporter before the invasion

so while I don't care about her one way or the other, kind of a low blow to attack for something when she wasn't even in the career field yet.

[90-percent]

20. Erin's broadcasting career.

It would have been nice if Erin did this kind of reporting back in 2005 when she first hosted CNBC's Street Signs and co-anchored Squawk on the Street with Mark Haines.

And for all I know about her career, maybe she did do reporting like this back then?

Oh, and this is why I have a beef in my heart about Erin;

Shortly after arriving at CNN, on October 4, 2011, Burnett did a segment on the Occupy Wall Street protests titled "Seriously?" in which she mocked the protesters.

I clearly remember that piece. Gee, why on earth would a former Goldman Sachs financial analyst mock OWS?

-90% jimmy

[heaven05]

6. Erin is relentless in this piece

she makes him lie and obfuscate during this entire interview. He is a RW scumbag that should have been in the docket in the Hague with bush, cheney, rice, wolfowitz, lee, rumsfeld facing war criminal charges. God they actually try to make it seem wrong to call them out on their lies. The politics of the last 14 years has poisoned my attitude toward this system that has allowed POS like this to make decisions that alter the lives of millions of people in a detrimental manner. Both american and Iraqi families are suffering needlessly because of people like bremer and the PNAC members. awww man.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Who here caught Rachel Maddow's special a few months back, about the

"most genuine" reasons why we went into Iraq?

Of everyone interviewed (which included many BushCo people), Bremer came off as by far the sleaziest and slimiest of them all. Complete and utter denial that it had one iota to do with control of the oil.

K&R.

[BeyondGeography]

8. Parliamentary approval for a status of forces agreement!!!??!!?

What was O'Bumbler thinking?

On the one hand, he brags about all the elections that have taken place since 2003. On the other, he describes Obama's request for democratic approval of diplomatic immunity for our remaining troops as us, " telling the Iraqis what to do." These guys have no shame whatsoever. Once in a long while, a reporter pulls the mask off.

K&R.

[randys1]

9. I cant watch it, i really cant , tell me the spot where she gets him and i can

ff

but watching these filthy, lying, crybaby punks makes me sick

they will gladly kill your son, not think twice about it, then if it doesnt work later they will kill your grandson

[Evergreen Emerald]

10. Notice how he keeps repeating the lie about how they removed Al-Qaeda

That is a lie...Al-Qaeda was not in Iraq.

[jaxind]

11. Title should be called 7 minutes of heaven!

I loved seeing this guy squirm. Erin did a great job pummelling him. And, he clearly said the reason they went in was to get Hussein. I wish right then and there, Erin had said "oh really, I thought it was because of the WMDs - so which one is it?" But, nevertheless, she did a great job!

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. Its almost impossible to cross examine every lie - there are so many of them

Such as his claim that electricity was 50% greater than even under Saddam, after the invasion. After Cheney awarded himself and his friends no-bid reconstruction contracts after decimating Iraq's electricity plants, they dragged their feet and spent their time and money building the biggest shiniest American embassy in the Middle East. Those people STILL don't have adequate electricity.

During the multiple attacks, economic sanctions and occupation, the electrical power production network was systematically and intentionally destroyed by American forces [2] [4]. After the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the electrical power production capacity dropped to only 3,300 MW [2], which was drastically under the national requirements.

During 2009, after six years of occupation, with a population of about 30 million and required peak demand of 6800 – 7500 MW [2], only 3,300 MW of electricity was available. To date, Iraq cannot achieve it’s 9,925 MW production of the late 1980s. In other words, the Iraqi population is getting only 30% of the electricity production the pre-occupation government had previously provided for them.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/crimes-against-humanity-the-destruction-of-iraqs-electricity-infrastructure-the-social-economic-and-environmental-impacts/5355665

[progressoid]

12. Good for Erin but I can't stand to listen to that sack of shit Bremer.

[Jack Rabbit]

13. Our occupation was a great success, said the proconsul

Am I listening to Bremer or Pilate?

[adieu]

14. Dude was the friggin' viceroy

of Iraq in the mid-2000s. What the heck did that title bestow, other than bleepin' responsibility for ensuring the safety and care of the citizens of Iraq?

[swilton]

17. Five favorite words

....'there's a lot of wealth'.........both Bremer and Wesley Clarke are selling US intervention to protect the wealth ...

Can't stand his assertion that Iraqi life expectancy increased post US invasion...Health care in Iraq was one of the best in the Middle East prior to Gulf War I when US bombing destroyed much of the electrical grid and reduced preservation of vaccines and other medical care for civilians, especially children..


..After this you had the US sanctions. Here is the Wikkepedia excerpt where Madelaine 'the price was worth it' Albright says the sanctions killing half-a-million Iraqi children was worth it...

On May 12, 1996, Albright defended UN sanctions against Iraq on a 60 Minutes segment in which Lesley Stahl asked her "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" and Albright replied "we think the price is worth it."[86] Albright later criticized Stahl's segment as "amount[ing] to Iraqi propaganda"; said that her question was a loaded question;[87][88] wrote "I had fallen into a trap and said something I did not mean";[89] and regretted coming "across as cold-blooded and cruel".[86] Sanctions critics took Albright's failure to reframe the question as confirmation of the statistic.[89][90][91] The segment won an Emmy Award.[92][93



...Post Gulf War I it was only Basra where the depleted uranium appeared...but with Bush's War depleted uranium use was widespread also white phosphorus was utilized in places like Fallujah.....Depleted uranium contamination persists for centuries if not millennia...

How does that man speak with a straight face let alone look himself in the mirror in the morning?

[sulphurdunn]

18. This slimy, arrogant asshole

oversaw the dismantling of the Iraqi government and military, the only institutions that could have provided post invasion stability. Under his governance, billions of dollars in Iraqi and American assets were either squandered or went missing under his stupid privatization schemes. He is near the top of the list of former Bush war criminals who should be swapping toilets in a federal prison.

[wildbilln864]

21. War criminal! n/t

[KoKo]

22. That he shows his Freakin' Face is an Abomination!

Erin trying to recruit some on the Left to her RW Audience or a "twinge of guilt?"

Whatever....

[Cha]

23. K Thanks Tripper

[question everything]

24. I can't believe that he has the audacity to show his face

He was the one who destroyed the civil service infrastructure by declaring that no member of the Ba'at party would be hired. As if they had a choice. But they could have restored normal government running.

And he was the one behind building that monstrosity of an embassy. And he was the one who... stayed. We should have left after we caught Saddam Hussein. Or, at least, provide then for a civilian transfer of power.

What a loser!