MONTREAL (AFP) – Nobel peace prize laureate Elie Wiesel said the war on Iraq is justified and blamed unnamed European countries for failing to prevent it through pressuring President Saddam Hussein.
“If some European countries put as much pressure on Saddam Hussein as on (US President George W.) Bush, there would have been no war,” he told a press conference in Montreal.
Meanwhile David Adesnik points out Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter’s support for Saddam Hussein — in 1980! Zbigniew Brzezinski is involved, too. Funny that when these guys were opposing the war, nobody in the press was raising the possibility that their motivation, in part, was to defend their own failed policy.
UPDATE: A few people have sent outraged emails about my “double standard” in not pointing out that some people, like Rumsfeld, backed Hussein in the past.
But what I was doing was pointing out the double standard of the “peace” movement types who have been making that point for months. The difference is, Rumsfeld, et al., have learned from their mistake. Carter — typically — hasn’t.