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BLITZER JOINS BUSH WAR EFFORT
Attacks Dr. Helen Caldicott For Having An Expert Opinion
 Saxby-Chambliss, GA - (GNS)
- Wolf Blitzer discarded his role as an objective journalist and became a spokesperson for the Bush Administration earlier today when he chose to attack Dr. Helen Caldicott for using her knowledge and having expert opinions regarding uranium, nuclear war, radiation and radiation sickness.
     Caldicott appeared on CWSN (Cable War & Sniper Network) to discuss the use by the U.S. in the Gulf War of uranium-depleted shells, which, she said, contain plutonium, have a long half-life, and have already begun injuring Iraqi children poisoning them with radiation.
     After Caldicott eloquently described a tragic situation of young Iraqi girls getting breast cancer before becoming teenagers, and the inability for doctors around the world to aide these civilian victims because of U.S. sanctions against Iraq, Blitzer demanded to know why Caldicott was "defending Saddam Hussein".
     Caldicott had not defended Hussein, she had criticized the U.S. for using this kind of weaponry and had speculated that the U.S. was planning to use it again.
     Blitzer repeatedly interrupted Caldicott and repeatedly emphasized how the Bush Administration had responded in the past to the these charges.
     He posted on the screen an Amnesty International statement about Iraqi use of torture, as if Caldicott was defending Iraq.
     Caldicott condemned Iraq for its use of torture and its use of poison gas, much of which, she pointed out, was initially supplied by the U.S. when the U.S. backed Iraq in the Iraq-Iran War.
     Blitzer continued to suggest that to criticize or question the U.S. was to defend Hussein. Many of his sentences and questions began with the phrase "The Bush Administration says...", as his tone became more strident and more accusatory.
     Blitzer later defended the interview, saying "at least we had her on. Doesn't that show, even though I did my best to eviscerate her, that we're fair?"
     Sources close to the Fictional Times said the above Blitzer quote was indeed fictional, but stood behind the bulk of the article.
     Readers are urged to obtain a transcript or videotape of the "interview" to decide for themselves.
     Caldicott's new book, which she successfuly mentioned during the interview, is The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military Industrial Complex, and can be found at Amazon at http://www.amazon.com.