Iraq ambasador and Reagan's terrorism expert

[miko2d]

"I'm a veteran of the armed forces. I have had two tours of active duty in the Army. And I don't take a back seat to anybody in terms of patriotism. This is the greatest nation that ever was and may be the greatest nation that ever will be. But that's my view, and it is not universally shared. So we have come out with 21 pages of proof that Osama bin Laden was involved. I have read that material. That's allegations. That's not proof. It's an entirely different thing.
 So, yes, he's not a nice guy, Saddam Hussein. But I think that the costs to our nation and its interests of taking him out are probably vastly exceeding anything we would gain by doing it."

"my job has been all these years to learn to understand these other countries so I could tell my country about them.  ..we have been bombing Iraq whenever we feel like it for the last 10 years. Nobody likes that, least of all the Iraqis, and but lot of other people besides."

"We have accepted responsibility for the death of 500,000 Iraqi children on American television,a position taken by the then-ambassador to the United Nations. A lot of people don't want to excuse you for that. So if Saddam Hussein believes, that he's still at war with the United States, could it be the daily bombings? Could it be the $94 million that Congress appropriated to finance his overthrow. Sir, that's an act of war. Whether you want to accept it as such, we are going to finance people to overthrow his government? That is -- that is called a hostile act, you see? So if he's upset with us, there may be a reason for it"

"So we will mercilessly, viciously, effectively attack and destroy all kinds of symptoms. When the rubble has settled and the dust is gone, the disease is still going to be out there untouched. Because we don't want to look at why, why it is that all of these people hate us. It's not because of freedom. It's not because Brittney Spears has a belly button or because we export hamburgers. They hate us because of things they see us doing to their part of the world that they definitely do not like."  

-- Edward Peck, former US Ambassador to Iraq and deputy director of President Reagan's terrorism task force.

[Saurdaukar]

::gets beer::

[narsus]

And terrorism before 1991 never existed.

[john9001]

""'"We have accepted responsibility for the death of 500,000 Iraqi children on American television""""


by "we" you mean you and saddam??

[Sikboy]

Ambassador Peck's quotes about Afganistan are interesting. I wonder if he's had anything to say since this was written in October of 2001?
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Here something from last october:
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/transcripts/2002/oct/021021.edwards.html
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-Sik

[GRUNHERZ]

Sorry miko there is no saving your buddy saddam now, your post and appeals to our pity are 12 years too late.

[miko2d]

john9001: by "we" you mean you and saddam??

 He is not here - I only posted Edward Peck's quote, not enrolled him into HTC board membership.

 I'd bet by "we" he ment at least himself and "the then-ambassador to the United Nations" - just re-read the quote.

 miko

[miko2d]

GRUNHERZ: Sorry miko there is no saving your buddy saddam now, your post and appeals to our pity are 12 years too late.

 I was not the one to bring him to power, ply him with weapons, germs, poisonous gasses and intelligence. He is your buddy much more than mine.

 Is it too late to save US freedoms?

 miko

[Torque]

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Sorry miko there is no saving your buddy saddam now, your post and appeals to our pity are 12 years too late.

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by miko2d

 Is it too late to save US freedoms?

 miko [/B]

Yes obviously too late, america is practically nazi germany and bush is worse than hitler...  


Torque!  

But you now oppse and denounce the same man working hard to oust saddam hussein. In the end it simply means that today saddam hussiein is your friend and enjoys your suport.