Posted on 06/22/2005 4:54:53 AM PDT by veronica
MELBOURNE, Australia -- An Australian engineer held hostage in Iraq for nearly seven weeks arrived in his home country yesterday and apologized for his televised plea for coalition forces to withdraw from Iraq. Douglas Wood, 64, who lives in Alamo, Calif., told reporters at Melbourne's airport that he supported the coalition forces' role in Iraq.
"Frankly, I'd like to apologize to both President Bush and Prime Minister [John] Howard for the things I said under duress," said Mr. Wood, with his American wife, Yvonne Given, and his brothers, Vernon and Malcolm, and their wives by his side. "I actually believe that I am proof positive that the current policy of training the Iraqi army ... works because it was Iraqis that got me out," he said.
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Is Durbin going to claim similar duress?
No apology necessary, IMO. I think we understand.
Was he held hostage by Michael Moore?
No, he's going to say this Aussie has Stockholm Syndrome.
No apology necessary, IMO. I think we understand.
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I agree. Still, he showed considerable class and integrity for doing so.
Agree totally. That was a class act maneuver.
He survived and did what he had to do. No apologies necessary.
As was Mr. Howard's comment that no apology was necessary. What a great ally we have in Australia!
This didn't even make my hometown socialist liberal newspaper.
What a decent, good-hearted man!
Too bad our Dems give freely what this man had to be tortured for.
Class. Great class from an Australian friend of freedom and America. Godspeed.
Now there is a man with honor and dignity.
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