Mclaughlin Report
On Abu Gharab:
Pat Buchanan: This is a PR reversal…
Tony Blankley: The president's political opponents have already politicized this. And he likes Lieberman.
Pat Buchanan: The whole problem is the pictures. Before the pictures, if you said prisoners are being abused, prisoners are being killed, no one would have complained.
Mort Zuckerman is so full of shit when he talks about not understanding that part of the world because he's one of the poster children for the problem. And John McLaughlin is an absolute pisser this morning. I need a transcript. His body language has him sitting twisted, with his back to apologists Blankley and Buchanan.
McLaughlin:
(on blame)- I don't see how they could stop short of Rumsfeld or someone next to Rumsfeld.
(to Buchanan)- You worked for Nixon, you know how deniability is preserved.
Buchanan:
George Bush will not be reelected if he gives up international control of the problem.
(McLaughlin asked how successful could an interim Iraqi government be if they're seen as a puppet government)- They're going to be a puppet government right up through January.
Do you think he's going to give control of American forces to a bunch of Iraqi?? [P6: emphasis transcribed]
