Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said Baghdad would defeat any U.S. military action against his country. "America has revealed its hatred against the Arabs and Muslims and this arrogant (Bush) understands concession as weakness," Ramadan told reporters after opening an exhibition of Syrian products in Baghdad. Ramadan rebuffed comments by Secretary of State Colin Powell this week that President Bush was considering military action against Iraq in its war on terrorism. "America has been saying that over the last 12 years and those who defend their sovereignty and country will defeat the aggressors such as the arrogant Americans."
Quick vitriol analysis: North Korea - incoherent. Iran - cliched, alternating with confused. Iraq - monotonously belligerent.In re: Iraqi reaction.
Remember the Black Knight at the bridge in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"? Not that the result there was pretty either.
Posted by Tom Roberts 2/10/2002 4:49:59 PM |