Hello Maxshapiro,
The quotation went like this:
Lehrer: ?Do you expect the invasion, if it comes, to be welcomed by
the majority of the civilian population of Iraq??
Rumsfeld: ?There's obviously the Shia population in Iraq and the
Kurdish population in Iraq have been treated very badly by Saddam
Hussein's regime, they represent a large fraction of the total. There
is no question but that they would be welcomed.?
Source:
United Status Department of Defense News Transcript
February 20, 2003
Rumsfeld?s interview with NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, WETA TV,
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/t02212003_t0220sdlehrer.html
http://www.defenselink.mil/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=1938
?20 Feb 2003 On The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld predicts that American forces will be welcomed as liberators
by the Iraqi people: "There is no question but that they would be
welcomed... Go back to Afghanistan, the people were in the streets
playing music, cheering, flying kites, and doing all the things that
the Taliban and the al-Qaeda would not let them do."
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/donald-rumsfeld/
?In a September 25 interview, a reporter from Sinclair Broadcasting
said to Rumsfeld, "Before the war in Iraq... you said they would
welcome us with open arms."
Rumsfeld responded with a denial:
Never said that.... Never did. You may remember it well, but you're
thinking of somebody else. You can't find anywhere me saying anything
like [that].... I never said anything like that because I never knew
what would happen and I knew I didn't know.?
?But on February 20, Rumsfeld was asked by PBS's Jim Lehrer: "Do you
expect the invasion, if it comes, to be welcomed by the majority of
the civilian population of Iraq?" And Rumsfeld responded: "There is no
question but that they would be welcomed. Go back to Afghanistan--the
people were in the streets playing music, cheering, flying kites, and
doing all the things that the Taliban and the Al Qaeda would not let
them do."
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1161
On September 25th, Rumsfeld was asked about the surging resistance to
the US occupation of Iraq. One news anchor, as a prelude to a
question, said that "Before the war in Iraq, you stated the case very
eloquently and you said . . . they would welcome us with open arms."
Her question remained unasked, as Rumsfeld cut him off. "Never said
that," he said. "Never did. You may remember it well, but you're
thinking of somebody else. You can't find, anywhere, me saying
anything like either of those two things you just said I said."
Unfortunately for Rumsfeld, he is on record as saying exactly those
things. For example, before the invision, on February 20, he answered
a question on whether US troops would "be welcomed by the majority of
the civilian population of Iraq." He was quick to reply: "There is no
question but that they would be welcomed."
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/anarchism/writers/anarcho/war/iraq/rewrite.html
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Rumsfeld welcome Iraq OR Iraqi open arms
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Bobbie7 |
