Posted by: zanshin, 2007-08-27 02:58

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Date: 2007-08-24 (Friday)
Political matters are a history of settling scores among the big families and the big parties [of Iraq]. That’s what it’s like there. They’ve had 6,000 years of violence. So, finally, the daily death toll in Baghdad and in the country doesn’t interest them so much. And if you don’t understand that, you don’t understand anything. That’s one of the mistakes the Americans made. They understood nothing about what has happened in the country over such a long period of time.
-- Bernard Kouchner, French Foreign Minister, interview with Newsweek






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