Chutzpah

mid-afternoon on Friday, the 19th of December 2003 by Chad

Just saw the best quote on the whole Iraq situation. Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia just lectured the Europeans for whining about not getting contracts in Iraq when they tried to block the whole thing.

Bandar went on to rebuke Europe as ineffectual, saying at one point that he wouldn’t want to have to call on that continent’s leaders if he encountered trouble in a dark alley. “The U.S. is the best bet,” he said, adding Saudi people are America’s “friends.” Bandar also reiterated the Saudi condemnation of terrorism and said the U.S. had no choice but to go to war in Iraq. Removing Saddam Hussein from power “couldn’t happen by poetry. It had to happen the way that it did,” Bandar said. “The good of it outweighs all the pain that was caused by the process.” The ambassador repeatedly praised Bush’s decisions to fight terrorism, invade Iraq and send troops to Afghanistan to oust the Taliban. “We should be grateful for what the United States has done to get rid of those two evils, the Taliban and Saddam,” Bandar said, generating applause from hundreds in attendance of a luncheon co-sponsored by the Bilateral/U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce.

Thats great. You can’t fight terrorism with Poetry. I love it!