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Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel says Iraq war justified (AFP, Apr 6, 2003)

Nobel peace prize laureate Elie Wiesel said the war on Iraq is justified and blamed unnamed European countries for failing to prevent it through pressuring President Saddam Hussein.

"If some European countries put as much pressure on Saddam Hussein as on (US President George W.) Bush, there would have been no war," he told a press conference in Montreal.

"Saddam Hussein had to be disarmed (and) there were no other means," said the Nazi concentration camp survivor and author who was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1986 for his message "of peace, atonement and human dignity."

I suspect I'm not the only conservative whose most uncomfortable political moment came when Elie Wiesel turned to Ronald Reagan at a previously planned White House event and begged him not to go to Bitburg Cemetery. President Reagan's look of anguish nearly matched Mr. Wiesel's in a scene that was excrutiating to watch, especially if you admire both men.
Posted by Orrin Judd at April 7, 2003 8:39 AM