Posted on 03/18/2005 12:14:19 PM PST by jb6
MADRID - US billionaire financier George Soros on Tuesday slammed as dangerous Washington's strategy to fight terrorism, saying it was creating anger and resentment around the world.
Speaking on Spanish radio station Cadena Ser the day an international conference on terrorism opened in Madrid, Soros said Spain had "a very different response to terrorism -- a healthier response."
The Hungarian-born businessman, who spent millions last year opposing US President George W. Bush's reelection, said US policies had had negative consequences.
"Producing innocent victims creates anger and resentment. And this anger and resentment feeds terrorism," he said, according to the station's Spanish translation of his English comments.
In Iraq, he said, "there are more people wanting to kill Americans than there were before.
"These people didn't think like that before the Americans arrived and did what they did. The attitude of creating innocent victims creates terrorists. It's as simple as that."
Soros was among more than 200 personalities, leaders and experts attending the conference on terrorism underway in Madrid.
The three-day symposium is to be followed Friday with solemn commemorations marking the one year anniversary of the March 11, 2004 train bombings in the city which killed 191 people and wounded 1,900.
An Islamic extremist cell with links to Al-Qaeda has been blamed for the attacks, which gave a new context and challenges to Spain's anti-terrorism strategy, focused up to then on the four-decade-old conflict with the Basque separatist group ETA.
03/08/2005 14:48 GMT
George Who?
Would they love us if we simply surrendered?
The US Approach to Terrorism Creates DEAD Terrorists......
Poohbah says "George Soros is pi$$ed off because he can't engage in currency manipulation as easily with governments watching the banks real closely."
It's time to take this ex-Nazi informant and send him packing back where he came from.
yeah we're making them hate us by standing in the way of their terrorism and medievel ways.
Soros needs a frontal lobotomy, I need a bottle in front of me...
Yeah. His cash cow is gone.
"George Soros says US approach to terrorism creates hate"
George Soros says US retaliating after Pearl Harbor creates hate
Ain't nothing terrorists hate more than being killed by the US military.
Auric Goldfarter should STFU and go back to developing the ultimate laser beam to control global climate conditions...
one wonders how a guy that dumb can be that rich.
He ought to get out more. You spend all your time sitting in the Euro fainting couches, you're gonna get a lopsided view of things...
Ain't nothing liberals hate more than seeing U.S. power solve problems.
Hey Georgie Boy, I got yer hate right here...come and get some! What an incredibly out of touch loon Soros is.
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