Woolsey on WWIV

[arcticpenguin]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/03/sprj.irq.woolsey.world.war/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former CIA Director James Woolsey said Wednesday the United States is engaged in World War IV, and that it could continue for years.

In the address to a group of college students, Woolsey described the Cold War as the third world war and said "This fourth world war, I think, will last considerably longer than either World Wars I or II did for us. Hopefully not the full four-plus decades of the Cold War."
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Woolsey has been named in news reports as a possible candidate for a key position in the reconstruction of a postwar Iraq.
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He said the new war is actually against three enemies: the religious rulers of Iran, the "fascists" of Iraq and Syria, and Islamic extremists like al Qaeda.
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Woolsey told the audience of about 300, most of whom are students at the University of California at Los Angeles, that all three enemies have waged war against the United States for several years but the United States has just "finally noticed."
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Singling out Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the leaders of Saudi Arabia, he said, "We want you nervous. We want you to realize now, for the fourth time in a hundred years, this country and its allies are on the march and that we are on the side of those whom you -- the Mubaraks, the Saudi Royal family -- most fear: We're on the side of your own people."

His mentioning that other countries, namely Iran and Syria, are on our hit list should put the world at ease. (not!)

I rather thought that the Saudi royal family and Mubarak were our allies, and without them their peoples would be giving in to rampant anti-Americanism.

very strange.

 

[a_unique_person]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/03/sprj.irq.woolsey.world.war/index.html



His mentioning that other countries, namely Iran and Syria, are on our hit list should put the world at ease. (not!)

I rather thought that the Saudi royal family and Mubarak were our allies, and without them their peoples would be giving in to rampant anti-Americanism.

very strange.

This issue has already been raised here

http://host.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16128

The first of many wars? It seems there are a few who think so.