"Baker Has Fruitful Talks With Chirac"Is it the media’s job to do RovePR?

[papau]

Comment: Why is it hard for the media to say that Baker/Bush have achieved nothing in this trip – and do not expect to achieve anything! Or that these comments with no promise of real action ARE EXACTLY WHAT WE GOT IN JULY, 2003 from the same folks?

Is it the media’s job to do Rove PR?

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA7WYU1AOD.html

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=6&u=/ap/20031216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saddam_baker_s_trip

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=5&u=/nm/20031216/ts_nm/iraq_baker_dc

Baker Has 'Fruitful' Talks With Chirac

By LAURENCE FROST, Associated Press Writer

PARIS - France and the United States agreed to seek reductions in Iraq (news - web sites)'s foreign debt next year within the Paris Club of creditor nations, U.S. special envoy James A. Baker III said Tuesday after meeting the French president.

On Monday, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said France would join the other 18 members of the Paris Club to look for ways of restructuring or canceling Iraqi debt. <snip>

(from one or more of the links above:)Iraq owes some $40 billion to the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and others in the 19-nation Paris Club (comment: within the Paris Club, Japan is the biggest creditor, owed 4.1 billion dollars, followed by Russia, owed 3.5 billion, France, three billion, Germany, 2.4 billion, the United States 2.2 billion and Italy, 1.7 billion-those sums do not count hefty interest payments that have accumulated in the years of UN sanctions following Iraq's 1990 invasion on Kuwait). Other countries and private creditors are owed at least an additional $80 billion. <snip>

Baker's task, to reduce Iraq's crushing debt load, received a fillip Monday when both France and Russia said they would consider writing off or restructuring part of the debt (comment: with no mention of how much they were talking about). <snip>

[strategery blunder]

1. Yes, unfortunately

We have a media dominated by a few giant corporations whose CEO's support Bush. So the journalists and news anchors have Bush shoved down their throats.

Not to mention the media owes Bush favors for deregulation.:mad: :mad: