'Traveling throughout Iraq last week, I heard many more accounts of unspeakable brutality -- on a scale unimaginable for Americans.' The US Deputy Secretary of Defense recounts his recent visit to Iraq.
'... that is written by thousands of academics ... we have academics saying one thing, we have the Iraqi people saying something else. I think the Iraqi people are the authorities,' says the US Deputy Secretary of Defense.
The US Deputy Defense Secretary says, 'We want things decided in democratic ways, by debate and dialogue and elections, not by bullets and militias and torture chambers'. April 9, 2003.
The US Deputy Secretary for Defense, the brain behind the scenes, on his pet theme of providing democracy and freedom to Iraqis which he says would be an inspiration for other Arab countries.