These people have NO BUSINESS anchoring the news. Ernie Pyle is spinning in his grave
Katie Couric, on post 9/11 America, over Afghanistan:
"The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.
And I remember feeling, when I was anchoring the 'Today' show, this inevitable march towards war and kind of feeling like,
'Will anybody put the brakes on this?'
And is this really being properly challenged by the right people? And I think, at the time, anyone who questioned the administration was considered unpatriotic and it was a very difficult position to be in." __________________________________________________________
Deaths at Pearl Harbor: 2117 Deaths on 9/11: 2974
No doubt Ms. Couric feels a war of revenge and violence over 2100 deaths which killed 45 million people, a majority of whom were civilians, was uncalled for, and the parades and kisses in Times Squares in 1945, unjustified triumphalism
I am filled with disgust at this breathtaking and real revelation of what I had thought to be a gross exaggeration by doctrinaire 'rightists'
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