Scottie & Me--White House Press Briefing with Scott McClellan

[lebkuchen]

Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - 12:30 PM
by Russell Mokhiber

Mokhiber: Scott, two things. First, does the President know how many people have been killed and wounded in Iraq since the beginning of the war?

McClellan: Those numbers are made available, publicly.

Mokhiber: Does the President know how many --

McClellan: He's very well aware of the sacrifices that are made in Iraq.

Mokhiber: Well, how many -- how many people have been killed in Iraq? Not just Americans -- total people killed and wounded in Iraq since the beginning of the war?

McClellan: Russell, I don't have those numbers.

Mokhiber: Does the President know?

McClellan: Russell, I think that --

Mokhiber: Are they available?

McClellan: I'm sorry?

Mokhiber: Are they available?

McClellan: I don't know that you can keep track of all the numbers. I mean those are issues you need to address to the coalition provisional authority

Mokhiber: Do you know whether the President knows --

McClellan:: Or, I'm sorry, the Central Command.

Mokhiber: Does the President know how many people have been killed

McClellan: The President knows that what we are doing in Iraq is central to winning the war on terrorism.

Mokhiber: That wasn't my question.

McClellan:: It is central --

Mokhiber: Does he know how many people have been killed and wounded?

McClellan: It is central to bringing about --

Mokhiber: I know that. But does he know how many --

cont.


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0902-10.htm

[gratuitous]

1. Go Russell

Here's another question, free for the taking:

Does the President plan to meet with the families of any of the people killed in Iraq?

[qb]

5. Where are all of the hugs he promised? nt

[tom_paine]

2. Man Imperial Amerika is almost as funny as the Old Soviet Union

Except that of course, in the Old Soviet Union (or Imperial Amerika 2030) Russel Mokhiber would be in Karagranda, Vorkuta, or the Heinrich A$$cru$t Memorial Re-Education and Re-Christianization Camp in the Sonoran Desert.

Ahhh, the things we Imperial Subjects of Amerika have to look forward to.

[Boudicea]

3. I love Scottie & Me.

What a crock of shit "press secretary" is. Lies and dodging.
I almost posted this yesterday.

[Cocoa]

4. god that looks funny in print

my favorite part, after asking the first question 100 times, "okay second question"

[disgruntella]

6. can you hear me now? good.

Except it never gets good.

"Tell you what, Scott. If the President DOESN'T know how many Americans or Iraqis have been killed since the war began, clap once... If he doesn't care, clap twice..."