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Fox Coverage of Iraq Question

Wednesday, 26 February, 2003
VOICEOVER: Cold justice could be heading Saddam's way? We'll tell you about the military's newest plan to rid the world of the Iraqi leader.

ANCHOR: The 'New York Post' today writing a war plan that looks pretty much on the money.

CO-ANCHOR: It looks pretty impressive though. My only complaint is...

ANCHOR: Well what is it?

CO-ANCHOR: ..well it's so detailed. I mean, they talk about exactly how it's going to happen - they're going to go in, they're going to get Saddam and his two sons - Quasy and Uday - they're going to take out these kind of installations, they're going to do this, they're going to do that. Why tell everybody?

ANCHOR: Yeah, well within 48 hours, they're going to target them, I don't think it's that big of a surprise. They're going to go right into Baghdad, target them, and they got sophisticated eavesdropping equipment that gives them an idea of where they find 'em.

SECOND CO-ANCHOR: They're calling it a hunter-killer teams, a group of special ops guys, after a massive surgical strike over the first 48 hours, then these surgical teams would go in there. But gosh, we talked about this at the top of the 6 o'clock... Dr Chiuristani on '60 Minutes' last night talking about this chemical belt of VX gas all the way around Baghdad if our troops go in there.

ANCHOR: Well he wants to kill his own people too.

SECOND CO-ANCHOR: Right. Kill his own people.

ANCHOR: Right. He's going to wipe out his own people, he's going to level the place, he's going to blow up things.

ANCHOR: How do you figure the President has suffered so much popularity-wise, across the globe, it seems, recently, where we're vilified even more than Saddam Hussein himself?

GUEST – TONY BLANKLY: Given the natural resentments the world is going to have against the only remaining superpower. And then you combine the various left-wing elements, along with the gullible idiots around the world, and it's going to be pretty difficult for us to win that. We probably could've tapped down the numbers a little bit, and my guess is that after we perform ably and selflessly, which is what I'm confident of what we're going to do, that we'll gain back a lot of the world's support.

ANCHOR: Here's Tony Blankly.

CO-ANCHOR: Here's our guy.

ANCHOR: And for the first time, the Administration has no plan to win over the idiots. Thank you very much, Tony. Much appreciated.