Berlusconi Flips?
By In a television interview to be aired next week, Premier Silvio Berlusconi says he repeatedly tried to convince American President George W. Bush not to invade Iraq .
In the lengthy interview to be shown on private TV channel La7 on Monday, Berlusconi says that: “I was never convinced that war was the best way to make a country democratic and to bring it out of a bloody dictatorship .
“I tried many times to convince the American president not to wage war… I tried to find other ways and solutions, even through joint action with African leader (Libya’s Muammar) Gaddafi .
“We didn’t succeed and there was a military operation but I believed military action should have been avoided.” The comments were released by La7 two days before Berlusconi was due to visit Washington .
Nice to mention that now, instead of when it might have mattered. But who am I kidding; it’s not as if the voice of one more European capital would have made a difference.
Via Laura Rozen