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Soros: Cheney, Ahmadinejad 'Extremists'
Billionaire investor and political activist George Soros has compared Vice President Dick Cheney to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying the two are "extremists on both sides.”
In his new book "The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror,” Soros calls members of the Bush administration "American supremacists,” and is critical of what he claims is their insistence on using force to impose America’s will on the world.
In an interview that appeared in the Boston Globe this Sunday, Soros – who spent a fortune attempting to defeat President Bush in 2004 – said he isn’t opposed to the concept of a global economy, but when asked if he favored some sort of global government, he responded: "I’m against global government. Now if you don’t like a national government, you can move someplace else. A global government would probably interfere with our freedom more than national governments.
"But you do need international law and international institutions, and today, international law is very weak. The American supremacists argue that international relations are relations of power, and that international law merely recognizes what power has wrought.”
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When asked if he thought Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld view the invasion of Iraq as a failure, Soros said only that they are "disappointed” the war hasn’t gone better, and added: ”Cheney and Rumsfeld continue to take a very anti-international approach and want to use force. They are actively agitating for military action against Iran, which has really terrified the uniformed military.”
Interviewer: "It’s hard to see the American people supporting a war in Iran.” Soros: "The danger cannot be discounted. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has more influence than his predecessor in Iran, Mohammad Khatami. And here we have Cheney. Extremists on both sides are playing off each other, and the moderates are shut out by the escalation.”
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