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| Iraqis are ready to defend country against US, says Aziz |
| 2002-09-29 |
| âIraqi people are ready to defend their country against any US strikeâ, Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz vowed yesterday. âWe are going to defend our country. This is our responsibility and we are prepared for that,â Mr Aziz said in an interview broadcast on Iraqi Satellite Television. "Yeah. Bring on! Bring 'em o-o-o-o-n!" âWe cannot boast that we can break the US army, but we can defend our country because we will be fighting within our own homeland, and we know the places we are fighting in and our people are fully supporting us in defending their own homeland.â Mr. Aziz said. Yeah, yeah. We know. "Knives and forks, and bare hands." âIraq had to be very careful because we are still being threatened by the US. If the inspectors declare that Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction, which is the case... and we are sure of that, what is George Bush going to do?â Then there wouldn't be any problem, would there? But since Iraq kicked out the inspectors, and refused to let them back in, we have no way of knowing, do we? Mr. Aziz expressed hope that Washington would fail in its attempt, with London, to pass a new UN Security Council resolution on Iraq. âThe logic is that there is no need for a new resolution. The new resolution, being pushed by the Americans, echoes the American policy towards Iraq, not the will of the Security Council regarding the implementation of its resolutionsâ. There's not a need for a new resolution. We should be perfectly capable of attacking under the old ones they haven't adhered to... He said, âI hope that the Security Council will be strong enough, fair enough to resist any American manipulation...But I am not confident about the capability of the UN to resist American pressure and American manipulation.â "We're not sure if the fix is in or not..." Mr. Aziz said Iraqâs decision to accept the return of UN weapons inspectors after a near four-year break came after Baghdad heeded advice from a great number of friendly, Arab and Islamic countries. They advised that âwe have to do what we can to avoid the American military aggression and the return of the inspectors might help in that. We take the American threats seriously and we are preparing ourselves ... But we have to do what we can on the diplomatic, political arena to avoid the aggression if possible.â The war's already under way. It's being fought with diplomatic forces at the moment. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Assuming the country is free of WMD, like saying that it was a Zionist plot behind 9/11, we'd still have a problem with Hussein. That problem, euphemistically called "regime change" is really: "We want your head stuffed and mounted on a stick outside of Miami or Qatar, wherever CENTCOM is rotating to nowadays... |
| Posted by: Brian 2002-09-29 08:28:06 |