Monday, April 05, 2004
Bush disses using military force to set course of democracy
Harkening back to Richard Perle's assertion that "Democracies do not start aggressive wars", today, President Bush noted:
"This is one person [Moqtada al Sadr] - this is a person, and followers, who are trying to say, we don't want democracy - as a matter of fact, we'll decide the course of democracy by the use of force. And that is the opposite of democracy."
Could have fooled me, my impression was that Bush was all for deciding the course of Iraq by use of force.
Another curious item is Bush's response to a reporter's question about the June 30th deadline for transfer of authority in Iraq: "The United Nations representative is there now to work on the -- on a -- on to whom we transfer sovereignty. I mean, in other words, it's one thing to decide to transfer. We're now in the process of deciding what the entity will look like to whom we will transfer sovereignty." So now we're thinking of transferring Iraqi "sovereignty" to the UN? Whaa?
// posted by Erik @ 4/05/2004 03:06:00 PM
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