Hugh Hewitt interviewed Michael Ware, Iraq bureau chief for Time Magazine yesterday, via phone–as Ware is currently in Baghdad. Needless to say, there were several troubling comments from Ware; this might be the worst:
HH: Because we talked about this on CNN. Do you think Iraq is better off today, just…than it was under Saddam? Do you think that…
MW: Well, I was never here under Saddam. My period during Saddam’s regime was in the Kurdish North, where with U.S. air cover, they’ve forged their own autonomous sanctuaries. So I never lived under Saddam, and I can only imagine what the horrors were like, and what the restrictions were like. All I can tell you that life here right now is extraordinarily difficult, and there’s a lot of killing going on, and there’s a lot of deprivation going on, and to be able to compare that to something I never saw is a bit difficult for me.
HH: Well, do you think the Russian people were better under Krushchev than they were under Stalin? Neither of us saw Kruschev or Stalin, but both of us…
MW: Yeah, I wouldn’t have a clue, you know?
Henry Luce just rolled over in his grave. But Ware’s comments do explain past Time articles such as these.
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