‘WE HAVE TO STAY IN IRAQ,’ SOROS SAYS
George Rush and Joanna Molloy Star Talk

Monterey County Herald, CA
June 18 2006

Billionaire George Soros spent a fortune trying to pry President
Bush out of the White House. But the Democratic Midas agrees with
the president that we can’t pull out of Iraq now.

"Unfortunately, many countries have a national narrative that condemns
them to keep on defending a cause that is really indefensible,"
the Open Society founder said Monday at the Core Club party for his
book "The Age of Fallibility." "The Turks can’t admit the massacre of
Armenians, for example. We have been better in the past at recognizing
our sins. I’m afraid that we have to recognize that was a terrible
mistake.

"I can’t expect President Bush to do that," Soros allowed. "That
would be out of keeping for anybody. What’s worse, I think we
actually have to stay in Iraq for a while. If we left, we would have
a conflagration. We are sitting on a civil war. Therefore, American
soldiers have to continue giving their lives to a bad cause."

Soros said Bush was right to invade Afghanistan, because that "was
where Bin Laden was located." He also conceded that, since pre-war
Iraq was "a magnet for general terrorists," the U.S. occupation may
"have deflected a terrorist attack" here. But Soros argued that,
thanks to Bush’s policies, "The danger of a terrorist attack is
greater since 9/11. We may actually be growing terrorist cells."

P.S. Soros was downright courtly toward the Bushies compared with
Sen. John Kerry’s spokesman, David Wade, who snarled Tuesday at White
House adviser Karl Rove for accusing Kerry and fellow Vietnam vet
Rep. John Murtha of "cutting and running" from the war.

"The closest Karl Rove ever came to combat was these last months
spent worrying his cellmates might rough him up in prison," said
Wade. "This porcine political operative can’t cut and run from the
truth any longer. When it came to Iraq, this administration chose to
cut and run from sound intelligence and good diplomacy…. In November,
Americans will cut and run from this Republican Congress."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress