twisted logic . |
A deeply wounding dagger through my political heart |
being cavalier with any idea of process and justice. |
Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf), |
Charge me and I will head for the airport right now and face them down in court as I faced them down in the Senate room |
Charge me with perjury and I will be on the next plane to the U.S. I'll face them in court. You cannot get clearer than that. It's put up or shut up. |
Charge me, then. Charge me with perjury. I'll fly out tomorrow if you lay out these charges, and I'll have my day in court. And I'll disprove them, categorically. |
George Bush doesn't represent any civilization! |
He left me no doubt that if invaders come, they will be resisted and resisted on a very large scale, city by city, street by street, house by house, rooftop by rooftop, and a lot of blood will be shed, ... And not all of it will be Iraqi. |
He may have signed an oil contract. It had nothing to do with me, ... I was aware he was doing extensive business with Iraq. I did not know the details of it. It was not my business. |
I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war. |
I am not now or ever been an oil trader and neither has anyone on my behalf. I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one, and neither has anybody on my behalf, |
I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab. |
I demand they charge me with perjury and I'll be in the next plane to face it. |
I did not lie under oath in front of the Senate committee. |