Back in USA

Glad to see you made it back safe. Did you find many people, either journalists or general civilians, trying to bring looted property out of Iraq into the US? It blows my mind that such large scale looting would commence and they would get away with it at all.

Welcome home, fellow.

Take care, and keep the stories flowing, whether here or elsewhere, yours or others’. Thanks, and fare thee well!

Glad you’re safe :)

Thanks for the ride. It’s good to hear you’re home safe and sound.

Since you’re in New York why not check in with David Letterman. I and a lot of America would love to see your story presented in that light.

On second thought could your site servers handle the interest something like that would generate?

Chris,

Glad too see you’ve made it back. Can’t wait for your next adventure!

Madeleine, Boston

Chris, glad to see you made it safely home. Thanks for taking us along with you in this journey. I was informed, encouraged and inspired. Most of all, I felt. Hope to hear from you again. Will keep checking here for whatever’s new with you. Good Luck.

Glad you made it back safely. Will look forward to your book…

I’ll bet it’s just great to be home. Then again, in a land run by Neo-Conservative nutbags, how great can it be? Relax and take time, Chris. I’m sure everyone looks forward to your further writings.

Having been a regular visitor to your site over the past few weeks, I think I’ve been fortunate to witness the making of a milestone in journalistic history. Congratulations on an outstanding success.

Mhmmmm: beer. And sleep. But which first, and which most?

Welcome home,

Glad to see you back safe. You did an amazing job and everyone interested in professional journalism was watching your work with great interest.

Kudos, sir!

Welcome back!

Gald you made it back alive.

I wonder where you will go next?

Iran? Syria?

Or maybe an African country?

You never know where the world King George W. Bush will take you next.

This is not a criticism, just a question about this medium of reporting: After what I gather looks to be somewhere in the region of what, 4 or 5 months preparation to get this trip off the ground, you spend 20 days in Iraq, missed the conflict by a matter of days and are already back in New York.

As a vehicle to cover news stories, Blogging is far too slow in terms of getting the finance together to fund the trip. I have enjoyed reading the stories, and probably even more the stuff in the forums.

I believe this medium would be better used to cover feature length stories. A trip which is not dictated by time or has 6000 journalists wandering all over the country! If one could raise the funds to cover a trip say to cover the regime in Zimbabwe for instance. Now there’s a challenge!

Congratulations 4 your work, Chris. I hope u´re fine, because u know that iraquians and other people there are not ok, and now that USA disturb all that region we know that the war is not over… it´s just begining. The hate for USA will grow up there, and it´s very dangerous.

Success on your work!

u´re a great jornalist!

welcome back!

:-)

Bruno

Hey there…been reading all along, thank you very much.

In answer to the first post re: looting from Greg…of course it had to be Fox!

http://www.talkleft.com/archives/003014.html

seán

Loved the last post - I would have liked you to stay and write on all the subjects you mentioned which interest me too. I agree with ted - maybe this kind of journalism would be better employed over a longer period of time to cover a subject in more depth, with readers interacting with the journalist over the direction of the investigation. However, I was fascinated by the trip - I admire your energy, integrity and commitment.

mirkle, London UK

May I draw your attention to this interesting site. I stumbled onto it not fully realising what was going on. Now I am hooked because it is soooo off the wall It will make you pull your hair out…and I dare you not to respond! Gone on…treat yourself to a laugh, I guarantee you will be called a Communist or Socialist within your first posting!

http://www.blogsofwar.com/community/viewforum.php?f=1

FYI - did you know that there’s an article about you on NYU’s journalism website? (pub’d 4/11/03)

Just in case you haven’t read yet, here’s the link:

http://journalweb.journalism.fas.nyu.edu/pubzone/ReadMe/

Glad to see you got home safely. I’ve enjoyed reading your warblog. Keep up with the good work.

So what if some guy from Fox News took a few things? Is is the only one? NO! Many journalists/reporters and soldiers have been caught trying to smuggle the spoils of war. I don’t understand you people, just because the guy is from Fox News (which FIRED him by the way!) doesn’t mean anything. People are going to call you a socialist or communist because you share the views of those parties. The group setting up these “peaceful” Anti-War protests is a socialist party! Wake up people! It’s funny to see people claiming to be protesting “peacefully” and then they start rioting and looting. SUCK IT!

-Ron Jeremy

www.ronjeremy.com

Glad you are back. Have you read this story yet:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85110,00.html

Glad you made it back safely—I have really appreciated your posts over the last couple of weeks. Look forward to reading more in the future…

Best wishes.

I can’t thank you enough for your great independant reporting. To bad you couldn’t have stayed longer! You’re pioneering a new phase of independant journalism with the blog format…again many thanks.

Hey Chris, I’m glad you are back safely in the States. I will be looking forward to your next posting here.

Anyway, I found out some interesting news from Drudge (www.drudgereport.com):

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The SUNDAY TELEGRAPH is reporting that papers found by reporters at Iraq’s bombed out intelligence service building provide evidence of a direct link between Saddam Hussein’s regime and Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida…

According to the papers, an al-Qaida envoy met with officials in Baghdad in March 1998 to create a relationship based upon a mutual hate of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. An unidentified Western intelligence official describes the find as ‘sensational.’ MORE///

In the SUNDAY TIMES reporters allege docs found at the Iraqi foreign ministry show Paris gave regular updates to Baghdad on diplomatic dealings between France and the U.S… Developing…

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So now, all you people who were against this war, including you Chris. What do you have to say now? This was was totally justified, as clearly the Iraqi government had ties with Al-Qa’eda. And those French, they are NOT our friends, as they colluded together. Turns out Colin Powell was telling the truth in that address in the UN several weeks ago, I believed him, but I know some people here didn’t. Later…

Concerning the recent paperwork discovered and translated… don’t believe everything the mass media or the government (practically one and the same these days) spins out. White out and ink? Why bother? Bring back the old Spy vs Spy cartoons…they were so much more inventive.

Welcome home Chris. If you need decompression time, feel free to visit us up here near Cooperstown, where there’s probably a story or two about freedom of speech. We have plenty of extra rooms.

Thanks again for the stories. Wonderful!

the “I told you so” gets a bit old whoever wins this supposed ‘war of opinion’.

This is not the time for “I told you so!”

I’m glad this war finally happened. I hate that it came to this but I firmly believe it was inevitable following the cease-fire debacle of the ‘91 war.

But, having said that, the track record of the US and foreign policy in the Middle East is dismal so this is the time to keep the Administration’s feet to the fire to get it right this time.

We all (READ: GLOBAL PEOPLES) desperately need peace and stability so that all can benefit from economic prosperity rather the few benefitting from rape, pillage, torture, and murder.

Wouldn’t it be just an awesome thing if the saying “Peace and Goodwill towards All” was a for real saying rather than just a glib, once-a-year catch-phrase?

Glad your back stateside safely Mr. Albritton, well done. Now don’t go and get killed by a drunk driver or drive-by shooting or other such bullshit……..

Cheers,

Don B.

On Mirkle: Very astute comment! I feel the same way and intimated at this but you made it much clearer. Thanks!

On taking things as per Ron Jeremy…well, that happens in all wars. Of course, with PCism…things have to go differently. Don’t imagine that “others” did not use third party countries from which items could be forwarded to the US….

i very see it

AL SAHAF WILL IN USA

Saw your site mentioned on PBS yesterday, on the News Hour w/ Jim Lehrer.

Lads, I say the same things I said before. The US had no business being the aggressor in a war that was unnecessary and will still prove to NOT achieve the ends Dubya said he wanted to achieve. It probably WILL achieve the results they did not admit they wanted, including capturing the Oil Ministry and oil fields, setting the USA up before the entire world as a hostile, bullying force that will roll over anyone who disagrees (including American citizens); it certainly will guarantee that the US does not support its own education systems or lower any poorer Americans’ taxes; it has proven to the feds and Bushiites that they can wipe out our entire constitution and roll back civil rights a few hundred years, and the people will believe anything they say … and on and on. It has not done anything about Osama bin Laden, and we still have no proof of Saddam Hussein’s whereabouts - let’s see now, exactly WHAT are we supposed to celebrate? Geez. Seems like I’m just determined to see the little, teeny, tiny, scrawny drawbacks, huh?

Mirkle has just given me an idea:

What about an interactive assignment where readers/subscribers can point the journalist towards where they want the story to go. It would be like a gaggle of editors all suggesting what angle could be covered.

am a good mouslem and a prince.i want to know why can we love each other so that the world well be the best pleace to live.the america and the rest of the world are one.