Reply #7: yes - he said they only go out to do reports. [View All]

Here's part of the transcript:
BROWN: Correspondent Rod Nordland has seen Baghdad before and after, if you will. He's the Baghdad bureau chief for "Newsweek" magazine. I'm very pleased to have him with us again as we have before.

The president, Rod, talked about the Iraq that he wants Americans to see, an Iraq of schoolchildren back in class, of hospitals back treating people, a place that is certainly not perfect, but not a sea of violence. Give me a reality check.

ROD NORDLAND, "NEWSWEEK": Well, the schools are back, but there were schools before the war, too. Kids were attending school before. The hospitals were working before, although they had lots of problems, and perhaps they're marginally improved now.

In most ways, things are just now getting back to where they were before the war, and it's a little specious for the coalition to claim that that's an accomplishment, to get back to sort of ground zero as it were.

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