Gravel, citing independent opinion polls, begged to differ.
“This is an army of occupation, and if you look at the polls the people of Iraq overwhelmingly want us to leave,” he said, “and we should honor that.”
Gravel said the United States invaded Iraq on the back of fraud and lies by the Bush administration, “This is criminal of the order that should go to the world criminal court.”
The former Senator from Alaska said the only way to achieve stability would be for the United States to admit error, and then go to Iraq’s neighbours, including Iran, and ask for their help in bringing stability to Iraq.
“Here you have President Ahmadinejad of Iran, who I don’t have any particular truck with by the way, but he goes to Iraq and he is more popular than any American official.”
The American leader, Gravel said, goes to Iraq and he has to sneak around in the dark of night with total security. “Ahmadinejad goes in there and he is treated as a friend, does that not communicate something to anyone?”
Continuing the war under the illusion that progress is being made, Gravel said, is indicative of how out of touch President Bush really is.
“George Bush is not on this planet, truthfully,” Gravel said, “He really has no sense of reality of what is going on. Last week he told the American people we are not in a recession, while Alan Greenspan a day later said we were, and this is something the American people know. Bush is divorced from reality whether it’s about Iraq, Iran or the economy. He is not plugged into reality.”
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