Check out this gibbering idiot,he was trying a old "He's hijacked the plane
line a few short weeks ago.Remember? The line they used on Mullah Omar.
If you break Iraq, you own Iraq. It's just like (something) at the Pottery
Barn," said Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. "It is the right
thing to do, if we can do it right."
Friedman shared his views on Iraq during an hourlong lecture in which he
called the Sept. 11 attacks "the beginning of World War III" and said that
America has an obligation to be a strong global citizen.
Hundreds of people stood outside in the waning sunlight, waiting to get
past security guards waving metal detectors.
Friedman arrived moments before his lecture and stood in a small room
backstage, pacing and studying his notes.
Renu Khator, dean of the USF College of Arts and Science, peeked out over
the swelling crowd and quipped: "We should have done it in the Sun Dome."
Past a table where Friedman's three books were on sale, Denise Passmore
hurried to find a seat.
"I always read his columns," said Passmore, who said she agrees with
Friedman about 75 percent of the time. "He makes the whole (Middle East)
situation, which is really confusing, a lot clearer."
Friedman said that deep-seated humiliation with their struggling society
and anger with their oppressive governments -- not simply United States
backing of Israel -- fueled the rage of the men who carried out the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks.
He said, "9/11 is not about the poverty of money. "It's about the poverty
of dignity."
He called Osama bin Laden and those like him "super-empowered angry men"
who "hate us more than they love life."
He said America can lessen such hatred and gain trust in the Arab world
only by becoming "the best global citizen we can be," by making a deeper
effort to defuse the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and finally, by
curtailing our dependence on oil.
He said that for 50 years the United States has "treated Arab states as if
they are big, dumb gas stations. All we cared about was that the pump was
open."
Friedman managed to slip in jabs at the antiwar stance of the French and at
the shoot'em-up swagger of the Bush administration.
"These guys are really good at breaking things," he said of the White House
crowd. "If you need something broken, these are your guys. I'm not sure
they're so good at building something up."
Still, Friedman said he holds hope that should war arrive, President Bush
will make a sincere effort to rebuild Iraq, both for the sake of his
political career and for the sake of world relations. All it takes, he
said, is "naive optimism."
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/02/24/TampaBay/Writer_s_advice_on_Ir.shtml
Can this imbecile be run over by a lexus and hung on an olive tree? I'll
PAY for the duct tape (2$)
