Posted on 03/13/2003 8:20:40 PM PST by Sawdring
Moscow, March 13. (PTI): The former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev today said that Saddam Hussein should go in voluntary political exile to avert an imminent US-led war on Iraq.
Gorbachev in 1990-1991 had unsuccessfully tried to avert Gulf War through coercive diplomacy against its ally Iraq.
He believes that a voluntary, self-imposed political exile of Saddam would open the way for the radical changes in the country and the military operation could be cancelled and all his mistakes forgiven.
Speaking at the presentation ceremony of his book "Facets of Globalisation" Gorbachev said that the US would hardly roll back and withdraw its forces from the region, but warned that a war in Iraq would "destroy the entire system for maintaining global security."
"The only way out of this impasse is Saddam's exit from the political scene," he said.
"In my opinion, the only way to avoid a war in Iraq is if Saddam Hussein steps down from the political arena. He must declare his resignation and open the door to changes," Gorbachev was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
He said history had witnessed several examples of a leader stepping down, and cited his own resignation as leader of the former Soviet Union and that of Nicholas II, the last Russian czar who abdicated throne before being killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries.
However, he expressed support for the anti-war stance of Russia, France, Germany and China and warned that the current course of action would drive America into a dead end.
This raises all sorts of red flags where the Pope's leading off with the idea was concerned. I don't like it at all.
Yes, well ... they had so much in common, did they not?
This is one of the most chilling things you've ever posted.
They're always so much more clear when they "send a message".
He was nothing but Reagan's chump.
By inviting him to set up shop over here in his digs at the Presidio and busy himself (when not laundering drug profits through Green Cross) hosting his annual State of the World (World State) forum ... a veritable smorgasbord of New World Order consciousness-raising and occultism.
We avoided war with him, in other words, by surrending to him.
I know ... I know ... how could possibly have "surrendered" to a guy who was wooed by Reagan, held captive in a coup and "resigned" from his own government?
They don't call it Leninist Deception Strategy for nuttin. If you don't believe me that the moment of abject weakness is actually a triumph, go ask Sun Tzu.
He led the Soviet Union into the "Russia" who, wide-eyed, claims clean hands with regards to the Soviet Terror Network it confected, sustained and controlled(s).
The same Russia who's calling the shots today as the US Keystone Kops do the dirty work of "Democratization" for them.
Brzezinski rightly called Kosovo a "microcosm of what the world is about to be". Folks tend to forget that the embarassment that was Pristina was a big part of that microcosm.
Mining our side of the red carpet we rolled for the Russians?
About at sensible as our opting for a landbridge to the Stans rather than "liberating" the capital in Afghanistan when we had the choice (or so they say) of which present to put on our sleigh and deliver to the world for Christmas.
Unless I've missed something -- as he pops up every so often in the Financial Times, New York Times and such -- he's batting 1000.
Let's just wait and see what happens. Perhaps they'll engage in some face-saving measure and assassinate Saddam and his henchmen on prime time as they did with the Prime Minister of Armenia an hour after Strobe Talbott took off towards Moscow.
Sorta like BOTH Bush AND Dole stepping up to the plate during impeachment to argue that actual removal of the Mad Bomber of Sudan would sully the decorum of the semen-stained office.
Excuse us while we "send a message".
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