Seanad debates

Wednesday, 2 April 2003

Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq: Statements.

 

What we are confronted with, in fact, is a totally imperialist situation. I know that the word "imperialist" used to be tossed around in student debates but this is imperialism. Look at the struggle between the various elements in the Bush Administration. Colin Powell's State Department put in a list of eight people, who included several former ambassadors to Arab states, to be involved in the presumptuous and arrogant administration of Iraq after the war but Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon put their pens through them all and instead are trying to give the posts to long-time supporters of regime change, such as James Wolsey, a former director of the CIA. What was the one they had earmarked for him? The answer is the Minister for Information in the new Iraqi Government. Can one imagine anything more Orwellian? This is 1984 20 years too late. They are going to impose a Government, and the Minister for Information representing the Iraqi people is going to be the American-based former director of the CIA. That is what we are dealing with in this situation.

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