Tucker Carlson gave it good to CAIR's spokesman Ibrahim Douglas Hooper last week (June 1) on MSNBC. When the Haditha story broke last week, CAIR sent out a press release demanding that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resign over the "Iraq Massacre." Tucker questioned Hooper on his show (scroll down about 1/3 of the screen):
CARLSON: Don’t you think we ought to wait until the investigation is done and we know what really happened before you start calling for defense officials to resign?
HOOPER: Well, first of all, I think it’s pretty clear what happened. There have been no reports refuting the allegations of a massacre that I’ve seen.
CARLSON: Now we don’t know what happened. The military has not commented publicly on this, as you’re fully aware. It could be that the stories we have seen in the press are either inaccurate or at best incomplete.
Don’t you think, like the rest of the country, you ought to slow down, take a deep breath and find out what happened before you start weighing in, in ignorance?
HOOPER: I think there have been enough eyewitness reports — really bone-chilling reports of what happened, and even from soldiers who were involved in the incident or in the clean-up of the incident to determine that something happened there. And this is just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
CARLSON: What do you mean, something happened there? That’s good enough for you? You’re a — you’re a public policy organization and “something happened” is good enough for you to just weigh in and call for someone’s resignation? Please.
HOOPER: First of all, we’re Americans. We’re concerned about America’s image in the world. Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, the — all the things that have happened in Iraq and Afghanistan and different places in the Muslim world. These harm our nation’s image and interests. We’re concerned about it, and we don’t want it to continue.
CARLSON: But you’re assuming that American soldiers killed these people in cold blood. You don’t know that, but you’re implying it. Does that help America’s image abroad? I don’t think so.
HOOPER: We — we protect the reputation of our armed forces by holding them and their commanders to the highest standards possible.
CARLSON: Right, and those standards include knowing the facts before passing judgment. Those standards, I think, apply to all of us, even CAIR.
Go get, 'em, Tucker. Not the first time that he has refused to accept CAIR's nonsense.
And as Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR notes, " CAIR does not have the credentials or credibility to call for the dismissal of a county dog catcher, let alone the SecDef ..."
Too bad this is such a rare thing. It should be happening everyday.
Posted by: wolftracker | June 09, 2006 at 02:39 PM