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    RICH IN IRONY: SOROS AGAINST IRAQ BACKTRACK
    George Soros

    New York Daily News, NY
    June 14 2006

    Billionaire George Soros spent a fortune trying to pry President
    Bush out of the White House. But the Democratic Midas agrees with
    the President that we can't pull out of Iraq now.

    "Unfortunately, many countries have a national narrative that condemns
    them to keep on defending a cause that is really indefensible,"
    the Open Society founder said Monday at the Core Club party for his
    book "The Age of Fallibility." "The Turks can't admit the massacre of
    Armenians, for example. We have been better in the past at recognizing
    our sins. I'm afraid that we have to recognize that was a terrible
    mistake.

    "I can't expect President Bush to do that," Soros allowed. "That
    would be out of keeping for anybody. What's worse, I think we
    actually have to stay in Iraq for a while. If we left, we would have
    a conflagration. We are sitting on a civil war. Therefore, American
    soldiers have to continue giving their lives to a bad cause."

    Soros said Bush was right to invade Afghanistan, because that "was
    where Bin Laden was located." He also conceded that, since pre-war
    Iraq was "a magnet for general terrorists," the U.S. occupation may
    "have deflected a terrorist attack" here. But Soros argued that,
    thanks to Bush's policies, "The danger of a terrorist attack is
    greater since 9/11. We may actually be growing terrorist cells."

    P.S.: Soros was downright courtly toward the Bushies compared with
    Sen. John Kerry's spokesman, David Wade, who yesterday snarled at
    White House adviser Karl Rove for accusing Kerry and fellow Vietnam
    vet Rep. John Murtha of "cutting and running" from the war.

    "The closest Karl Rove ever came to combat was these last months
    spent worrying his cellmates might rough him up in prison," said
    Wade. "This porcine political operative can't cut and run from the
    truth any longer. When it came to Iraq, this administration chose
    to cut and run from sound intelligence and good diplomacy. ... In
    November, Americans will cut and run from this Republican Congress."
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