L. PAUL BREMER III
--- Andy Ousterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam, who is the author?
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> Andy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 4:39 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: What I Really Said About Iraq
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/opinion/08bremer.html?oref=login
>
> ...
> The press has been curiously reluctant to report
> my
> constant public support for the president's
> strategy
> in Iraq and his policies to fight terrorism. I
> have
> been involved in the war on terrorism for two
> decades,
> and in my view no world leader has better
> understood
> the stakes in this global war than President Bush.
>
> The president was right when he concluded that
> Saddam
> Hussein was a menace who needed to be removed from
> power. He understands that our enemies are not
> confined to Al Qaeda, and certainly not just to
> Osama
> bin Laden, who is probably trapped in his hide-out
> in
> Afghanistan. As the bipartisan 9/11 commission
> reported, there were contacts between Al Qaeda and
> Saddam Hussein's regime going back a decade. We
> will
> win the war against global terror only by staying
> on
> the offensive and confronting terrorists and state
> sponsors of terror - wherever they are. Right now,
> Abu
> Musab al-Zarqawi, a Qaeda ally, is a dangerous
> threat.
> He is in Iraq.
>
> ...
>
> A year and a half ago, President Bush asked me to
> come
> to the Oval Office to discuss my going to Iraq to
> head
> the coalition authority. He asked me bluntly, "Why
> would you want to leave private life and take on
> such
> a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless
> job?"
> Without hesitation, I answered, "Because I believe
> in
> your vision for Iraq and would be honored to help
> you
> make it a reality." Today America and the
> coalition
> are making steady progress toward that vision.
>
>
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