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"When the decision was taken, I said to him, this is going to lead to war with the US and it is not in our interests to wage war against the US."
"But the decision was taken. I was the foreign minister of the country and I had to defend the country and do everything possible to explain our position. I stayed on the side of right."
"There is nothing here any more. Nothing. For thirty years Saddam built Iraq, and now it is destroyed. There are more sick than before, more hungry."
"The people don't have services. People are being killed every day in the tens, if not hundreds. We are all victims of America and Britain. They killed our country."
Iraq pre-2003 no longer exists. Washington and NATO allies destroyed the cradle of civilization. Aziz is guilty by association. He regrets surrendering to US authorities. He did so on April 24, 2003. He said goodbye to Saddam days earlier.
"Through an intermediary, I contacted the Americans," he said. "If I could return to that time, I wish I would be martyred." He's endured a long ordeal. He's ill, weak and fading.
On April 3, The BRussells Tribunal issued the following statement:
"Maliki and his gang are slowing assassinating Tariq Aziz." He's imprisoned in Iraq. He's treated inhumanely. Doing so constitutes torture."The whole Western political class and human rights bodies should be held responsible if he dies in custody, because of their inaction and negligence."
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