Associated Press ^ | 9-12-02
Posted on 09/12/2002 12:04 PM Central by Oldeconomybuyer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Iraq's U.N. ambassador criticized President Bush's speech to the General Assembly on Thursday, saying it lacked credibility and was motivated by revenge and political ambition.
"He chooses to deceive the world and his own people by the longest series of fabrications that have ever been told by a leader of a nation," Ambassador Mohamed al-Douri said.
It was the first Iraqi reaction to Bush's speech, in which the president warned Baghdad to comply with U.N. resolutions or face the consequences. ......
But al-Douri said the president failed to "find any evidence that Iraq possesses or develops weapons of mass destruction."
"I would have been pleased if the U.S. president would have talked about his true motives behind his speech -- revenge, oil, political ambitions and also the security of Israel, and targeting every independent state that would refuse to adhere to the American policy."
Can you imagine what any of those Iraqi veterans who remember the carnage that our Apaches, Warthogs and AC-130s wreaked upon them in 1991 are thinking today? Michael Ledeen said that an F-15 Eagle patrolling the Northern No-Fly zone caused 20 Iraqi soldiers to drop their weapons and surrender just by flying over them two weeks ago.