When Katie said "I've never understood"....she said it all    

End of discussion.

Hey Katie, join the NFL BROADcasters on the sidelines, then tell us you've never understood "Blue 62, Slant Right".

What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ?   David Foote  GoE

.. and if the US had not disbanded the Iraqi military, would the Shites just sat there and smiled?  Would the Kurds have said "Way to go US?"

There seems to be a break down in logical reasoning. The disbanding of the Iraqi military was neither a necessary or sufficent condition for  conflict.  The first massacre by the intact Iraqi military, would have led to questions from Katie as to why it was not disbanded. More "boots on the ground" might have meant more US casualties.

The different sects in Iraq have a long history of conflict.   News reporters have a long history of not being able to reason critically.

“Everyone in this room would agree that people in this country were misled in terms of  the rationale of this war,” said Couric, adding  that it is “pretty much accepted” that the war in Iraq was a mistake.

 The ONLY good generalization is a liberal generalization, especially when made by someone in the MSM ...

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“I’ve never understood why [invading Iraq] was so high on the administration’s agenda when terrorism was going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that [Iraq] had no true connection with al Qaeda.”

Yeah, and there are no gays in Iran ... Hey, Katie, S.H. showed he was backing terrorism by funding such in Israel ... not to mention the millions and millions of American dollars our troops found in the early going that could have been used to fund terrorism/A.Q. elsewhere in the world ... Think outside the box, Couric.

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“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.”

Anybody else hear the crescendo of the Bolshevik Revolution march behind Katie here?

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Further, Couric said the Bush administration botched the war effort, calling it “accepted truths” that it erred by“disbanding the Iraq military, and leaving 100,000 Sunni men feeling marginalized and angry...[and] whether there were enough boots on the ground, the feeling that we’d be welcomed as liberators and didn’t need to focus as much on security.” She added “I’d feel totally comfortable saying any of that at some point, if required, on television.”

Hello, Katie!?! Just blindly trust a loyal military to Saddam to suddenly NOT oppose us if we left them together?  Just a note to Katie:  There are currently some in positions of Iraqi security, police in particular, that have been shown not trustworthy ...

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...Couric referenced comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday’s “The Charlie Rose Show,” and said she actually agreed with Ahmadinejad on one point. “Oftentimes Westerners don’t really understand fully the values of this particular culture,” said Couric. “And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.”

The MOST important thing  I NEED to understand about this culture I learned on 9-11-01 ... Aside from that, from one "liberated woman" to another, what the heck is there to understand about the way women are treated and (not) valued in the culture?!? 

As for democracy thriving in Iraq ... Who would've thought a country built by the lowest classes of immigrants, other countries' criminal elements, and slaves in the midst of a displaced  indigenous native population would have ever seen democracy thrive?  Hint: USA ... Australia ...

The fact that you are giving ANY sort of credit to ANYTHING that two-faced Devil said/says shows you have left your mind so open your stinkin' brians have fallen out ...

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Couric took Rather to task for his reporting. “There were things in there that were quite egregious in terms of how it was reported,” she said. “And sloppy work is sloppy work…They did not dot their I’s and cross their T’s when it came to that story…And our job is to get right.”

Katie, as I recall, it was the T(as in th)s that blew the lid off the FAKE story. (Please, people, there is a difference between FAKE and FORGED).  CBS, and the MSM in general, got caught with its pants down ... You cannot get something "right" that is wrong in the first place ...

Try again, Mzzzz. Couric ... BTW, I hear The View might be looking for a new nag. You might be able to campaign for Hillary more easily from there.

The more America learns about Katie Couric, the more people will cease to watch the CBS Evening News with her as anchor until CBS brass will have no choice but to replace her (most likely with Russ Mitchell whom they should have put in as anchor in the first place). 

I wonder if Katie has been dedicating any time to watching "The War' on PBS? Last night, the show spent about 20 minutes talking about how thousands and thousands of GIs were killed at Anzio because some pinhead general was afraid to leave the beach until he had overwhelming force. He waited nine days to get his troops moving, which was more than enough time for the Germans to move in multiple divisions to prevent them from going anywhere.

I've got to give Ken Burns a lot of credit for really showing how inept the leadership of "The Greatest Generation" really was, and how screwed up an affair WWII really was. We won WWII more out of luck than skill, and Iraq will likely be won the same way.

No one seems to remember the First Gulf War, of which the current Iraq war is an extension.  In the truce that ended that war, Saddam was obliged to either destroy his WMD's (which he had, and which he had used at least twice) and provide proof of their destruction, or to turn them over to be destroyed.  He did neither.  Both Clinton and the UN had an obligation to follow up on those terms, but Clinton ignored them and some people in the UN were on the take from Saddam.  Those WMD's still aren't accounted for, but the liberal meme that they didn't exist is clearly wrong.  I think all of our consultations with the UN and other nations gave Saddam time to hide them.

The MSM is doing all the misleading.  Much of the opposition to the war is based on lies and distortions.  As for a lack of vocal opposition in the run up to the war, that's nuts.  There was a lot of pressure from the MSM to head off the war.  It had barely begun when the MSM started talking about its failure.  The MSM cannot be trusted.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.