Monday on 360…

A commercial ran last hour that says Michael will be featured on Monday’s AC360. It shows clips from the Anbar trip and from one of the Bekaa Valley pieces from last summer. While it doesn’t state that he will be in the studio with Anderson, I think that will be the case. The clip will be up on the site shortly.

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A different look

Sharon found a great photo of Michael from 2006 wearing a keffiyeh, and damn, he makes it look good!  

This was shown on MSNBC while he was doing a phone interview about the “Operation Swarmer” air assault on Samarra in March of last year. I’ll be posting an audio recording of the interview on the site as soon as it’s ready.

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Time for some awwwww…

 Well, no sight of Michael today, but I do believe we may have found ourselves a mascot! 

Mick the white koala 

  And here’s his official photo:  

 

 

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Looks like a quiet weekend

 

Michael is not listed as a guest on either This Week at War or Late Edition, so it doesn’t seem like we’ll be seeing him over the weekend. 

 

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Interesting blog write-up

 

This is an interesting commentary on the commentary after the president’s speech. First, the bio of the author:

 

Colonel Robert E Bartos Ret US Army-served as Military Attache to Moscow and Belgrade-Chief of Foreign Intelligence on Army Dept Army Staff-commanded battalion in Vietman-member of President Reagan’s transition team-advisor to Strategic Arms Delegation in Geneva–now spends time between Washington, DC and the Caribbean 

 

Now, there are some inaccuracies on the descriptions of both Michael and Anderson, so don’t blow a gasket. Still, the gist of the comments is great:

Like many Americans who watched Bush’s Surge speech, I flipped the TV channels afterwards, curious to gauge the pundit and politically correct crowd’s gush. A vast majority were either neutral or disappointed over Bush’s performance. My favorite interview was on CNN between Anderson Cooper and the veteran Australian journalist Michael Ware who reports from Baghdad. Cooper is a prissy, prim, clean cut, immaculate and careful man who always looks like he stepped out of a band box even in the middle of sandstorm. Ware is just the opposite: sometimes with a shirt tail out, he always looks like he was swept off a bar room floor, and usually has a one day growth of stubble; if you look closely you may find flys buzzing around his sweaty head. With a nose that is spread to the side of his face and that nasal Australian Outback Crocodile Dundee accent, he is by far the most gifted and effective English speaking reporter on the scene in Iraq. He responded to Cooper’s earnestly polite question on Bush’s speech with a sneer and read from prepared notes that debunked every major point in Bush’s speech based on his own on site observations and sources; it was a stark, grim reply, and a refreshing performance. No effort was made to please TV sponsors or conform to political attitudes at CNN. Cooper thanked him, probably afraid to ask another question – it was a rare moment – if Petraeus talked to this Australian regularly, the General might keep more of his troops alive. I dare US Congress to call Ware as an open hearing witness. Now that would be SHOCK AND AWE in the Congressional committee rooms. 

 

Yowza.

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The new NEW blog

 

Okay, so I should have looked before I leapt with the other blog. Totally my bad. I can read ATA here at work, but not see the Comments, as it turns out. Why one page from Blogger slips through and not the rest is beyond me, but…Tonight I will change the links on the website and *try* to move everything over, although new registration is required. Anyway, here is the real blog!  

 

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