Interesting Quotes

[erpowers]

"U.S., U.K., and Western policy toward Iraq in the 1980s turned out to be the biggest foreign policy blunder of the post-1945 era next to the Vietnam War. It fortified the grip on power of a ruthless autocrat; facilitated the genocide of elements of his own populations: fueled his war with Iran; cost U.S., U.K., French, and other taxpayers millions of dollars required to meet the government-guaranteed loans that Iraq failed to repay; brought Iraq to the brink of nuclear-power status; led to the invasion of Kuwait; and required the mobilization of the multinational force to expel Iraq from Kuwait, at considerable financial and some human cost, in order to restore something of the regional status quo that the arming of Iraq had been intended to guarantee in the first place." Mark Phythian, author of "Arming Iraq: How the U.S. and Britain Secretly Built Saddam's War Machine".

"If you don't like guys like Saddam Hussein, don't spend 10 years and billions of dollars of American taxpayers' money creating him,which... George Bush did. There's a long clear record... Presdident Bush made Saddam what he is." Ross Perot During 1992 Presidential Election Campaign


I started reading "Arming Iraq" today and found those two quotes in the introduction of the book. I thought it would be good for people to see these quotes.

[JuniperLea]

1. Very Good Indeed!

People forget history even when we are in the middle of reliving much of it.

[DanCa]

2. My favorite Senator Kerry Quote.

"If George Bush were around when Edison invented the light bulb he would have sided with the candlestick lobby," John Kerry, on Stem Cell Research.

[calimary]

3. Lordy, Lordy, my quotes file is 110 pages long! My favorite:

"What luck for the leaders that men do not think." Adolph Hitler.