Friday, July 22, 2005
"Oh, Dat's So Sad" News
Andrea Mitchell feels "angry, humiliated, embarrassed after Sudan Incident". "Oh, Dat's So Sad!"
Andrea Mitchell said she felt angry and humiliated after Sudanese bodyguards dragged her out of a room Thursday for questioning President Omar el-Bashir about his involvement in the country's violence.
Large, gun-toting guards painfully wrenched the 5-foot-3 Mitchell's arm behind her. She was freed after U.S. officials accompanying Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice complained.
Mitchell, NBC News' diplomatic correspondent, was part of a press contingent following Rice on her visit to the war-torn African country.
Sudanese officials already didn't want her there. Mitchell said she was shoved as she entered a room where Rice and el-Bashir were posing for pictures. Reporters were only allowed in at the State Department's insistence, and were told not to ask questions.
Mitchell, in a telephone interview after leaving a Sudanese refugee camp and arriving in Israel, said that attitude emboldened her.
"It makes me even more determined when dictators and alleged war criminals are not held to account," she said. "If our government is going to establish a relationship and push for a new beginning as Sudan reforms itself, they have to live up to international standards. A free press is part of that process."
Although el-Bashir has denied government involvement, the U.S. and international organizations say his government has equipped militiamen to massacre villagers in the rural Darfur province.
"Can you tell us why the violence is continuing?" Mitchell asked, as a Sudanese official said "no, no, no, please."
"Can you tell us why the government is supporting the militias?" she asked.
After getting no reply from el-Bashir, she asked, "Why should Americans believe your promises?"
It was then that she was forcibly removed.
"It is our job to ask," she said later. "They can always say `no comment' ... but to drag a reporter out just for asking is inexcusable behavior."
Afterward, Mitchell said she was "angry, embarrassed, humiliated" and upset that she had become part of an attention-getting incident. "Reporters don't want to become part of the story," she said.
Rice demanded an apology from the Sudanese government for the incident and, an hour later, the government's foreign minister called her on her airplane. Mitchell, the wife of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, said no one from Sudan has gotten in touch with her.
"I would rather see them live up to their promises," she said. "What they did to me is not important. They can't control my life."
Poor widdle Andrea..."[I] was shoved as [I] entered a room where Rice and el-Bashir were posing for pictures."
"Reporters don't want to become part of the story," she said. Bwa-HA HA HA-Hardy Har Har! WTF world are you living in, Andrea? Of course you want to become part of the story, you want the attention and the limelight.
"...but to drag a reporter out just for asking is inexcusable behavior." What a bunch of hooey. Naw, what's inexcusable Andrea is for your lack of understanding of a basic, simple request: That it was a photo-op, no questions. Maybe the chemicals in the hair dye you use have soaked through into your brain so much so you simply have lost the ability to understand a basic request.
Poor widdle Andrea ... why don't you just give up the reporter gig? You're really not that good at it. Stay home and take care of Alan. Try to get him to drop the prime lending rate. Now THAT'D be good work on your part!
Poor Widdle Saddam:
The former, underwear model/dictator complains he's not getting the access to his attorneys that's he'd like.
New video shows Saddam Hussein complaining about lack of access to attorney
BAGHDAD, Iraq A new video that's been aired on an Arabic satellite television station shows Saddam Hussein complaining that he has not had sufficient access to his lawyer.
The footage shows the former Iraqi dictator complaining to a judge that he only gets to see his lawyer when he's being questioned during investigative sessions. He asks, "is this the law?"
Video of Saddam has been released in the past, but this is the first time he's been seen since the Iraqi Special Tribunal filed its first criminal case against him on Sunday.
In the video, Saddam is sitting on a chair. At one point, he's wearing glasses and taking notes. A man who appears to be his lawyer is sitting beside him.
Saddam also complains that when he greets the judges he doesn't get a response. ("Oh Dat's SO SAD!") He calls that "a big insult." And he says his detention by the Iraqi government is a joke since the Americans are the ones with power.
Hey, 'ya know what? Let's go ask the surviving family members of the Kurds that you gassed to death if they think you afforded their deceased loved ones access to attorneys? Let's ask the relatives of those you killed in Southern Iraq if they believe you allowed the deceased ample access to their legal teams before you murdered them.
Hotdamn sumobitch, why oh why didn't we just 'cap' this a**hole when we captured him, and save the world from this pathetic attempt to afford this modern day Hitler his day in court?
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