Antiwar hecklers ruffle Bush hawk (Wolfowitz at Georgetown Univ - Aljazeera Delusion Alert)

Aljazeera ^ | 31 October 2003

[Stultis]

Antiwar hecklers ruffle Bush hawk
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Thursday 30 October 2003 11:17 PM GMT

One of the leading members of the Bush administration has come under fire at an American university only days after resistance fighters blasted his Baghdad hotel with a rocket attack.

US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz was visibly shaken as he fended off hecklers at Georgetown University during a speech Thursday.

The smooth-talking politician, who kept his cool under fire in Baghdad some days earlier, appeared ruffled and at one point snapped back at the hecklers.

"We hate your policies!" shouted one young woman, standing ten metres from Wolfowitz who went pale and clenched his jaw.

"Killing innocents is not the solution but rather the problem," she said.

"I have to (infer) you'd be happier if Saddam Hussein was still in power," he replied dryly before recalling the regime's cruelties.

"A lot of innocents were sacrificed and the alternative would have been far more brutal, there is no question in my mind."

Calm down

Two other students among the dozen that had lined up to speak to the man held up as the Bush administration mastermind of the Iraq war also attacked US policy there.

A visibly shaken Wolfowitz caught his breath to tell one of them, "You and I should both calm down."

He later said that the Iraq war was "not an ideological, but a moral issue."

"There is not much question in my mind about the morality of having gotten rid of this regime."

[Stultis]

Funny, Wolfowitz looked pretty cool to me on the clip that Brit played on Special Report today. I lot cooler than I would have been.

[Stultis]

Video is available from C-Span:

http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/archive/iraq/iraq103003_wolf.rm

As far as I can tell this hasn't actually aired on C-SPAN yet, at least not on C-SPAN 1. Keep an eye out for it this evening.

[dinok]

What a surprise...Aljezera...The Terror News Network.

Little comunist college creeps giving aid and comfort to the enemy...I remember seeing that some time ago. I wonder how long they will take before they start spitting on soldiers. I give them 'till New Years.

[mystery-ak]

Exactly...I saw this clip, Wolfowitz was not ruffled nor did he turn pale....

[Stultis]

Wolfowitz slaps down "chirping birds" ping.

I'll post the transcript soon as it shows up at Defense Link.

[PeteFromMontana]

You know this just proves, once again, why we are so blessed to have outlets like Fox News where we can see this stuff for ourselves.

Wolfowitz was not rattled, he was calm and collected and put her back in her place with well reasoned logic and facts.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Hey, Stultis, looked to me like Wolfie nailed the smug uneducated questioner... What did you hear?

Yeah, let's take our national security advice from Georgetown sophomores who think it would be better if everyone would just be nice to one another.

[Howlin]

A man who has seen and lived the things Wolfowitz has doesn't get "ruffled" by some pansy-assed anti-American freaks.

[aristeides]

Seems to me I remember people were applauding here when Albright, Berger, and Cohen were jeered at Ohio State in '99 (or was it '98?)

[Carolinamom]

If only Wolfowitz had had that film of atrocities shown on Fox tonight, those students might change their collective minds about the need to end such cruelty. Personally, I think they should be forced to watch it before shouting their objections to the war.

[The Wizard]

truly stupid students....what I saw made me worry about their future......

[Stultis]

I'm watching the whole thing off the C-SPAN weblink right now. Checking the schedule, it did air live on C-SPAN 3 at 11:30 today, and will be repeated on C-SPAN 2 at 9:25 EST tonight. Unfortunately I get neither, but I imagine it will also be reaired on C-SPAN 1 eventually.

[Catspaw]

As long as they're shown the unedited version. I could barely take the edited version.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

This is a duplicate post see


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1011702/posts


Why are you sending posts to yourself. Is it because this thread does not have legs????

[VRWC_minion]

Seems to me most folks are discussing the news copverage and haven't said squat about the protestors.

In fact the predominant FR view point is to encourage them.

[Denver Ditdat]

Aljazeera Delusion Alert

Al's-jizz-in-your-hair-a? Sounds like the distribution company for Gore's homemade pornos.

[Yankereb]

I didn't think that Wolfowitz looked ruffled. He looked calm and in control. On the other hand, the students came off as being rather naive and juvenile. On the other hand, isn't that what being young is all about. When you are young and stupid, you are young and stupid. Now, if they still hold these views in their 30's, 40's, and 50's, they'll be in a lot of trouble.

[mystery-ak]

I thought the same thing, but I really don't think it would make any difference....everyone knows of the atrocities committed by Saddam....I've come to believe that these people preferred to have Saddam in power and we could have *killed* him with kindness.

[Carolinamom]

I agree.....show them the whole unedited film and give them some perspective on WHY such monstrous actions must be stopped and the perpetrators eliminated. Then the innocents might enjoy lives such as these unthinking twits are already living.