CNN's Michael Ware: Surge Is Undermining ‘The Very Government That America Created’

[RedEarth]

Last night, during his interview with Larry King, Vice President Cheney claimed that “the reports I’m hearing, from people whose views I respect, indicate that the Petraeus plan is in fact producing results.”

On Anderson Cooper’s show later in the evening, CNN Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware, who spoke live on a night scope camera while embedded with troops responded to “the vice president’s evaluation” of progress in Iraq, calling it “sleight of hand.” “Yeah, sectarian violence is down, but let’s have a look at that,” said Ware. “More than two million people have fled this country. 50,000 are still fleeing every month, according to the United Nations. So there’s less people to be killed. And those who stay, increasingly are in ethnically-cleansed neighborhoods. They’ve been segregated.”

“There is still no sense of unity. And without America to act as the big baby sitter, this thing is not going to last.

watch it here...

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/01/ware-surge-is-undermining-the-very-government-that-america-created/

[Decruiter]

1. I do love Sir Ware sometimes, I really do. Who is left to kill?

“There is still no sense of unity. And without America to act as the big baby sitter, this thing is not going to last."

Thanks Michael, but I wonder why you are still there and Dahr J is not. Money I guess.

[Hieronymus]

2. Has Ware been knighted? He should be.

[TwilightGardener]

3. But Pollack and O'Hanlon, those objective "scholars", said we're

doing great! (Did anyone mention that Pollack is a PNAC signatory, by the way?)

[speedoo]

4. K&R, and bookmarked.

[spanone]

5. why are we waiting until september? remind me again

[Disturbed]

6. The Sept. report will say that the "Surge" needs a few more

months to work. In Dec. the report will say that the "Surge" needs a few more months to work. In Mar...you get the idea?