Helen Thomas rips into Robert Gibbs over US response to flotilla massacre
At Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called on Helen Thomas, who in a very animated fashion, confronted him for refusing to assign responsibility in the raid, which left nine people dead.
Thomas: “The initial reaction to the flotilla massacre, deliberate massacre, an international crime, was pitiful.
What do you mean you regret something that should be so strongly condemned, and if any other nation in the world had done it, we would have been up in arms?
What is this sacrosanct ironclad relationship where a country that deliberately kills people and boycotts every aid.. and abet the boycott?”
Gibbs: Well, Look I think the initial reaction regretted the loss of life as we tried and as we still continue to gather the relevant. ..
Thomas: Regret won’t bring them back.
Gibbs: Nothing can bring them back Helen, because I think if you could that wouldn’t be up for debate. We are.. we believe that a credible and transparent investigation has to look into the facts and we’re open to international participation in that investigation.
Thomas: Why did you think of that so late, why didn’t you initially condemn it?
Gibbs: Why didn’t we think of?
Thomas: Why didn’t you initially condemn it?
Gibbs: Again, I think the statements that we initially released speak directly to that.
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This woman. She is ... I have no words for her.
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