Words in context

Sorry to be getting so political here, but it is bothering me and this helps. Here is a quote from Ambassador Peck (former Ambassador to Iraq and member of Reagan's terrorism task force), a month after 9/11 and obviously in line with what Jeremiah Wright heard:

The difficulty that we face is that I support -- because I understand how democracy works -- we have to go out and do the sorts of things we are doing. So we will mercilessly, viciously, effectively attack and destroy all kinds of symptoms. When the rubble has settled and the dust is gone, the disease is still going to be out there untouched. Because we don't want to look at why, why it is that all of these people hate us. It's not because of freedom. It's not because Brittney Spears has a belly button or because we export hamburgers. They hate us because of things they see us doing to their part of the world that they definitely do not like.

And, thanks to google, I also found this interview with Peck from October 21, 2002. Worth reading on the fifth year anniversary of this stupid war.