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March 04, 2006
They picked this guy to run the World Bank?
For some reason I find this excerpt from a speech Paul Wolfowitz gave in May of 2001 highly amusing. On a related note, I'm also thinking of renaming my "Rebuilding Iraq" category to "Bad News from Baghdad":
Not long ago I spoke to the American Turkish Council and I took a bold risk, reciting an old Turkish saying in Turkish, a feat that I won't attempt for you today. I'll do it in English. The saying goes, "bad news comes back, even from Baghdad." Ten years after the Gulf War we're still getting bad news from Baghdad, from the same tyrannical regime. This regime which has meant bad news for so many for so long poses one of today's most pressing obstacles to peace. It has become clear that there is no cost-free or risk-free option in dealing with that regime.We must see Saddam without illusion if we are to know how to deal with the dangers that he creates. We cannot appease him. His appetites cannot be satisfied. There will be no peace in the region and no safety for our friends there--Arabs or Israelis, Kurds or Turkamons--as long as he remains in power. ...
As Secretary of State Powell has said, "Saddam Hussein is sitting on a failed regime that is not going to be around in a few years' time. The world," Secretary Powell said, "is going to leave him behind and his regime behind as the world marches to new drummers, drummers of democracy and of free enterprise." And let me add to that, it is our obligation to help this forward march in every way that we can. ...
Today the tyrannical regime in Baghdad is the root cause of the most immediate dangers that we face in the Persian Gulf. Hope for Iraq and hope for peace in the region rests on the liberation of that country from the tyranny of Saddam's regime. .... Again, to quote our Secretary of State, "We believe a change in the regime in Iraq would be in the interests of all concerned."
All concerned? Think he meant Al Qaeda, Syria, and Iran? It's clear now that it's in all of their interests for Iraq to remain unstable.
Posted by Mike at March 4, 2006 03:44 AM
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