I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. |
I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one. |
I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second occasion, I met him to try and persuade him to allow Hans Blix and U.N. inspectors back into country. |
I would rather be eating cheese and reading Sartre on the banks of the river Seine than eating popcorn with a born again bible-belt fundamentalist Republican administration in Crawford, Texas, execution capital of the world. |
I'll be going there to give them hell. |
I'm amazed that so many people in Canada believe they're not a part of this crime. |
I'm demanding that they charge me with contempt and with perjury, I'm demanding it. |
I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury. |
I'm really pleased and excited to be going back to America to campaign against this illegal war and occupation. And to have Jane Fonda join me is fantastic. I'll be able to get that autograph at last. |
I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have. |
If you had any evidence of that I had ever engaged in any actual oil transaction, if you had any evidence that anybody ever gave me any money, it would be before the public and before this (committee today), |
In this case the remedy is clear. They must charge me with perjury, and I am ready to fly to the U.S. today, if necessary, to face such a charge because it is simply false, |
Of course the war is only one issue, ... And Everest is only one mountain. |
Saddam Hussein greeted me with a handshake, which, again to my surprise, is surprisingly soft considering how many people that hand had dispatched, allegedly. I think he's quite a forbidding presence, too forbidding a presence to be charming. But he's interesting. |
Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong. |