Click here to read the whole thing, but for now, here are some nuggets…
“A child of five who knows nothing about the law can tell you that 9-11 requires a police response. We’ve been hit by the Mafia. You can’t go to war without an enemy nation to attack. You can’t have a war without a country, try and explain that to an American, I don’t think they know what a country is. We certainly know 80% of them believe that Saddam Hussein that had a country called Iraq was working in tandem with Osama Bin Laden, who was living in a beautiful palace in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It’s all nonsense. They had no connection the two. But Bush wanted to complete the work of his father, and to show that he was bolder than his father, he would be “Bush of Baghdad” not quite Lawrence of Arabia. Americans think they are the same person, and that both of them attacked us on 9/11.”
and…
“We had a great Constitution, and a great legal system. Only by the restoration of that can we have a country with aspirations and with indeed successes like Cuba. Don’t think I don’t get extremely jealous for the United States, since I am a super patriot; I get very jealous.”
Go on, read the damn thing.
minesweeper76
Thanks for the link. The interview is quite interesting and illuminating, but as you already know, Americans are allergic to intellectuals.
Forsoothsayer
good luck tomorrow! i’ll be there, antipathy aside :).