Chris Wallace: "What if we pull our troops out & there's a bloodbath"?

[Philosoraptor]

Chris Wallace on Fox news Sunday asked Ned Lamont if we should actually pull out of Iraq, he suggested that if we were to pack up and leave the region, it would descend into chaos and civil war and violence.

Huh?

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. They should have thought of that BEFORE they invaded.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. Indeed! Best response for that! nt

[tularetom]

2. And you would be able to tell the difference from today how?

[babylonsister]

5. Amen. It's already a bloodbath! Perhaps if we left, things would

calm down. Why don't these talking heads consider that?

[saltpoint]

There's a bloodbath there now.

And the Bush administration is largely to blame for it.

What are you doing watching FOX for anyway? They're the bad guys.

[Philosoraptor]

6. Ned Lamont was on

I normally don't watch fox, I swear, but I was just surfing and I heard this absurdity.

[saltpoint]

11. True, Ned Lamont would be worth hearing. He had an awfully

good week this past week, and it's good to have him on the tube so folks can see he's a bright, sensible soul.

Political junkies are still high from that Primary outcome, myself included.

[pretzel4gore]

18. truly a hopeful moment....

lieberman was so blatantly a busheviki, it was strange to see the wolfish fur under the threadbare wool....and noone else seemed to notice it!
also, just in terms of drama; where is al gore in the lieberman affair? the pigmedia should be clamoring for a soundbite, but THEY DON'T! just like the stock market gained 60 points on news of terror plot(?)

[saltpoint]

21. Evidently Al Gore's silence during the primary was a loud statement

that he wasn't endorsing his former veep pick.

Which didn't help Joe much.

I think Al's for Ned and if Lieberman stays in the race through the fall, it might be a lot of fun to see Al Gore fly in to Hartford and endorse Ned a week before the November election.

[Roland99]

24. Apparently Chris Wallace doesn't watch the news, even his own network

What a TOOL!

[saltpoint]

26. Yep. Chris Wallace is a bright guy who is doing the devil's work

on FOX.

Shame on him.

[YDogg]

3. chris wallace is a fucking tool.

[hippiechick]

4. Uhmmm ... hasn't he been paying attention ?

:shrug: There's sorta already been a bloodbath or chaos, civil war and violence for the past 3 years ...

:wtf:

[napi21]

7. I'm no Wallace supporter, but that was a good question.

I haven't had the chance to see the interview yet, so I don't know what Ned had to say. I'll be interested to find out.

If someone asked me that question, I guess I'd have to say, "would it really be worse than it is now?"

[rock]

8. "What if we put our troops in & there's a bloodbath"?

Oh, wait! Too late.

[bowens43]

9. In additon to the tens of thousands

killed in the bloodbath instigated by the US?

It's a little late to be worrying about a bloodbath.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. If we pulled out and the killing increased the UN might move in.

The GOPers don't care how many people die as long as they don't have to finally admit that they were dead wrong about almost everything to do with the war in Iraq. Their foolish, selfish, pride means more to them, than the troops lives, or the Iraqi people's lives!

[ebdarcy]

13. What exactly does he think is going on now?

I'm sure that all the victims of the various bombings, mortar attacks, and military and police actions would say that it's already a bloodbath.

[acmavm]

14. What did Lamont say???????????????????????

[Wheezy]

20. Yes, please! Inquiring minds want to know! n/t

[Philosoraptor]

23. Basically that it already is a bloodbath.

I bet they have the transcript on the web later, but he basically repeated what he's been saying all along, we should pull out and we should've never gone in.

[Daphne08]

15. Why didn't Chris Wallace consider that question BEFORE

the war?

Anyone who knew anything about the Middle East could have predicted this, and it demonstrates their lack of concern for the civilians of Iraq.

[Golden Raisin]

16. Hey Chris --- here's an idea ---

Why don't Fox and all the other TV media run nightly --- no make that 24/7 --- film of the endless carnage in Iraq, as was done on American TV during the Vietnam era? There's been plenty of bloodbath going on in Iraq & Afghanistan since Emperor Bush and the Neocons launched their preemptive wars. How about some footage of innocent Iraqi children maimed and killed? Maybe the American soccer moms who voted for Bush would like to see that. Oh but those children had their bodies blown apart and their lives ended as participants in a grand, western-style "democracy" that we brought to them, so that makes it OK.

[teryang]

19. Pictures of dead children in Lebanon had a direct effect....

...on diplomatic efforts to negotiate a cease fire.

The complaint du jour is that Hizbollah is winning the propaganda war because imagery out of the conflict zone can't be controlled.

Thank goodness we have an embedded press in Iraq.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

17. someone get Wallace a newspaper! Stat!

[Cha]

22. Tell me Mike Wallace didn't

raise such an idiot?! What do they call it now? Is he really worried about the oil like cheney and monkeybutt?

[adriennui]

25. it is what it is

let the iraqis figure out their future, even if it includes a sectarian civil war. lessons learned. we won't be in harms way.