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
Did I leave out anything important?
I guess this means he went back on his promise to move into a monestary if Bush was re-elected. Damn, he sounds just like Kerry: "We are fighting a sensitive war. Please dont hurt us."
That Satanists just didn't have any open rooms.
Last time I checked, the U.S. approach to terroism was in
CREATING DEMOCRACIES!
What a novel approach to foreign policy and terrorism!
Soros is full of it. We're doing exactly the correct things: extending the olive branch of liberation and freedom for those who want it, and the arrows of war to the terrorists.
"...on Tuesday slammed as dangerous Washington's strategy to fight terrorism, saying it was creating anger and resentment around the world."
Well then, what caused the anger & resentment around the world prior to "W's" stategery?
11-4-79 66 hostages taken at American Embassy in Tehran.
4-18-83 US embassy bobed in Beirut, Lebanon: 63 dead 100+ injured.
10-23-83 Marine barracks bombed in Beirut: 241 dead 60 hurt
4- 6-86 Bombing of W.Berlin Disco: 3 dead 230 injured
9- 5-86 PanAm Flt. 73 from Karachi, Pakistan: 21 dead, many hurt
12-21-88 PanAm Flt 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland: 270 dead
2 - 93 WTC bombing: 6 dead, 1000+ hurt $510 billion in damages.
10- 93 Black Hawk Down in Mogadishu, Somalia: 18 dead
3- 8-95 2 US diplomats gunned down in Karachi, Pakistan
4-19-95 Oklahoma City Bombing: 168 dead
11-13-95 US military training center bombed in Riyadh, Somalia: 7 dead 40 hurt
6-25-96 US barracks bombed in Dhahran, Saudia Arabia: 19 dead 500+ hurt
8- 7-98 Bombing of American Embassy in Tanzania & in Kenya: 225 dead 5000 hurt
1- 3-00 al-Qaida planned to bomb USS the Sullivan in Yemen, BUT, the over loaded bomb boat sank before detonating
10-12-00 USS Cole bombed: 17 dead 40 hurt
I'm with "W" on this one! Soros - shut up!
They guy does nothing but stir up anti American hate (both within and without the US) and has the audacity to critique the USA's approach to dealing with anti Western fiends? What is wrong with this picture? Here is one area where you and I probably agree - any Eastern European political groups who accept and receive support from this bozo are making deals with the devil.
Yes, I would agree with that - look at George Soros, Boxer, Kerry, Bryd, Kennedy, Sarbanes, etc. - they are all filled with hate.
Why he won't kick the bucket, the Devil protects his own.
But the real key scary question is: How many people love him?
Who in the world should believe Soros about anything except how to fleece foolish investors? He's just a rich, ignorant, punk with a stupid, leftist, anti-American opinion...nothing more. Emphasis on ignorant.
The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. <--- Notice the period George!
George Soros - the most evil man in America today.
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