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• [1] MaxNYC from Queens September 03, 2007 - 09:16PM

  Nice book promotion, but as an interview, well the softballs don't come much softer than this. Raddatz conveniently ignores her role in creating this bloody fiasco. Tellingly, she nearly fell over herself in defining her book as clearly NOT anti-war.

  And sadly, Lopate didn't really want to go there either, didn't want to ask her about her role in the run-up to the war. I remember seeing her on, I think, Washington Week in Review after Colin Powell's shameful presentation of non-facts, of a bunch of pictures of trailers with arrows, at the United Nations. Raddatz claimed Powell's presentation was something like overwhelming proof of Saddam's danger & perfidy, more thank enough justification to go to war.

  She mentioned in the interview how she had been going to Walter Reed for so many years. A good interviewer might have asked her why Dana Priest, then, had to break the story of the shameful conditions. If Raddatz was so familiar with Walter Reed, why did she remain silent? Ignorance or professional discretion? I mean, she's only a journalist, right? Who seems to go to Iraq alot & meet with hand-picked soldiers (she says as much in the interview), the generals, all in all, the official story. Sorry, Raddatz doesn't do independent journalism, rather shaping the government line, and sadly, Lopate missed the opportunity to explore this critical deficiency in the fourth estate.