Live From Baghdad, an Un-Embedded Journalist

Robert Fisk on Washington’s ‘Quagmire’ in Iraq, Civilian Deaths and the Fallacy of Bush’s ‘War of Liberation’

DEMOCRACY NOW! MARCH 25, 2003

There are many people in this country who would love to get rid of Saddam Hussein, I’m sure, but they don’t want to live under American occupation.

I don’t think it’s the job of a journalist to run away when war comes just because it happens to be his own side doing the bombing. I’ve been bombed by the British and Americans so many times that it’s not ‘shock and awe’ anymore, it’s ‘shock and bore’, frankly.