Peter Arnett

Peter Arnett (born 1934) is a New Zealand-born journalist and naturalized US citizen. Arnett worked for National Geographic magazine, and then for television. He is well known for his coverage of war, including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. He was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work in Vietnam, where he was present from 1962 to 1975, most of the time reporting for the Associated Press news agency. He became respected as someone who did not trust anything he had not seen with his own eyes, but made several missteps in the last fifteen years that hurt his reputation and ended his American television career.

Quotes

• Arnett quoting a U.S. army officer in Vietnam, when asked about the background for the use of much heavy artillery against a small village.

: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."

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• When asking Saddam Hussein if he realized he had made a mistake by not withdrawing from Kuwait at the insistence of the coalition, Saddam answered:

: "I don't care of the consequences, Allah is beside me in this struggle."

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• When asked what he intended to do after being fired from NBC in 2003:

: "There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific, that I will try to swim to."

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