Aneesh Raman, CNN’s Middle East correspondent, from Baghdad, discusses Blackwater’s and other mercenaries’ impunity in Iraq and the farce of Iraqi and for that matter American sovereignty over their behavior and the possibility of war with Iran and why it’s a bad idea.
MP3 here. (14:00)
Aneesh Raman is CNN’s Middle East correspondent, based in the network’s Cairo Bureau, a position he has held since November 2006. Prior to moving to Cairo, Raman was based in Baghdad as a correspondent from June 2005. While there, Raman extensively covered the on-going conflict in the region, including the political process, the trial, verdict and sentencing of Saddam Hussein. He was also embedded with US forces and reported on the impact on the Iraqi people of the nation’s on-going struggle.
At 13:20
“You know that: the pipe-smoking leather-elbow-patch tweed-jacket-wearing think-tank whack-jobs at place likes the American Enterprise Institute will tell you…”
said in the trademarked Goyette Angry Uncle tone…. priceless!
Still, unfortunate images of Bertrand Russel come to mind.
Yes… Well…
I wear a leather-elbow-patch tweed-jacket, and I smoke a pipe.
I’ve never been within spitting distance of the American Enterprise Institute.
Harrumph!
I have been looking for a tweed jacket with elbow patches to go with my pipe smoking… I don’t even know what the American Enterprise Institute is. Do they sell tweed jackets? I am but a poor material scientist.