Hi karenholt.... re >>>The throwing flowers thing I think was a phrase that came from Cheney or WOlfowitz saying we would be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi <<<<
Interesting link you posted...I've reposted the link below so I can find it easily again. It was Kanan Makiya who said that and here, he says so himself. Cheney may have quoted him. The link you posted was March 17, 2003.....so maybe there would be a quote by Cheney dated March 16, 2003. (Haven't looked yet)
KANAN MAKIYA says in the link that "he told the President this on Jan 10..."
BTW, I've linked his bio below this...
QUESTIONER): Vice President Cheney yesterday said that he expects that American forces will be greeted as liberators and I wonder if you could tell us if you agree with that and how you think they'll be greeted and also what you meant you said before that some Iraqi opposition groups might be in Baghdad even before American forces?
KANAN MAKIYA: I most certainly do agree with that. As I told the President on January 10th, I think they will be greeted with sweets and flowers in the first months and simply have very, very little doubts that that is the case.
And farther down in the interview....(interesting there are so many inaudibles in important parts....haven't seen that too much before...)
KANAN MAKIYA:Well, I just answered the first part of your question. Yes, I do think that that's how the American soldiers will be received. Regarding the Observer article, let me say that I like the opposition as a whole do not favor an extended period of military occupation and upon my return, I have had extensive meetings and it is clear that whatever the status of that original idea that was (INAUDIBLE), it is clear that that is not what the United States is going to do. I also was worried that the commitments to the (INAUDIBLE) and democracy may be tarnished by association with the existing structures of the (INAUDIBLE) party inside Iraq and I am now assured that the United States intends to dismantle those structures. Those two points alone give me great, great confidence. I think we're on the right track. I think we have made enormous progress and we are beginning now to work closely with the United States government in ways that I wish had happened several months ago, six months ago or whatever. But better late than never.
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Born in Baghdad, Kanan Makiya is the author of Republic of Fear, Post-Islamic Classicism, The Monument, and Cruelty and Silence, which was awarded the 1993 Lionel Gelber Prize fro the best book on international relations. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Independent, The Times (London), and The Times Literary Supplement. A trained architect, he is a founding director of The Iraq Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that facilitates research toward a democratic Iraq. He has collaborated on two films for television, one of which, Saddam's Killing Fields, received the 1992 Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Television Documentary on Foreign Affairs. Makiya currently directs the Iraq Research and Documentation Project at Harvard University and teaches at Brandeis University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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