thinkprogress.org - 12/16/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
During today’s White House press briefing, spokesperson Dana
Perino echoed President Bush’s claim that Iraqi journalist Muntader
al-Zaidi’s frustrations are not representative of the Iraqi public’s sentiments. She pointed out ...
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Perino: We’re not occupiers in Iraq; we’re guests.
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Perino: We’re not occupiers in Iraq; we’re guests.
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During today’s White House press briefing, spokesperson Dana Perino echoed President Bush’s claim that Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi’s frustrations are not representative of the Iraqi public’s sentiments. She pointed out that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki apologized for the mistreatment of his guest. When reporter Helen Thomas pointed out that U.S. forces are actually “occupiers,” Perino bristled:
QUESTION: Why not worry about it? Does it reflect the feelings of the people?
PERINO: I don’t think that you can take one guy throwing his shoe as representative of the people of Iraq. ...
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Matthew Yglesias —
Dana Perino says we’re not occupiers in Iraq, we’re “guests”:
QUESTION: But he wasn’t a guest. We’re occupiers.
PERINO: No, we’re not. We are absolutely a guest.
This is part of the sick culture of self-deception in which the Iraq War has gotten wrapped up. We invaded Iraq by force, dropping ordnance and firing lethal weapons. And our present there has been deeply unpopular for years. Our forces aren’t subject to Iraqi law. We just concluded a series of negotiations in which the main sticking point was that the Iraqi ...
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