The White House says the claim
is absurd.In addition,
let me point out some other absurdities:
First, Ms. Sgrena is from a
communist newspaper called Il Manifesto. So how
many of you think Il Manifesto sent her to Iraq to
report on how well Iraq is doing after its first free
election? None of you? What a smart bunch. Of course
it didn't.
She is an ardent
anti-American who was going to Iraq to do a hatchet
job on the American effort there and silly her she
didn't realize the Iraqi insurgent kidnapers didn't
really care if she thought they were noble freedom
fighters. They just wanted her sorry bones to ransom.
What's more, she now admits
they treated her well. Gee, now, that's a surprise.
When we all saw that tape of Ms. Sgrena begging for
her life with her hands held in prayer imagine a
reporter for a communist paper praying everybody
thought things must really be rough. Now it turns out
they told her what to say and how to say it and she
acted her part.
Also, The Washington Times is
reporting Monday that the $6 million ransom was not
Italian government money, but personal funds of the
media mogul Silvio Berlusconi who just happens to be
the prime minister.
So what do you think the
chances are that Ms. Sgrena cooperated with her
captors to squeeze some cash out of what she would
regard as a capitalist pig, the media mogul and prime
minister Mr. Berlusconi?
Think I'm stretching there?
In any case, she's now
blaming the Americans for shooting up her car which
tried to speed through a checkpoint.
I'm blaming her for thinking
she could wander around Iraq unharmed because she is a
sympathizer with the insurgents, then for getting
herself snatched, then for getting the prime minister
to put up his own money, which led to the death of one
of the Italian intelligence agents who came to save
her sorry rear end.
She's right it is
disgusting. I am disgusted with her.
That's My Word.
