Turner: Iraq no better off after war
Iraq was no better off following the US-led invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein than it was before the war, media mogul Ted Turner said.
The philanthropist and founder of CNN also said the United States and Russia still had thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at each other on a “hair trigger”, and he was afraid someone could make the mistake to launch them, including President George Bush.
“You have to question ... the president on a lot of decisions he’s made,” Turner said in a lecture at Kansas State University yesterday. “He might just think launching those weapons would be a good thing to do. ... He thought Iraq was.”
Turner also raised concerns about over-population, poverty and hunger. He said in the future, superpowers would derive their authority from education, health care, and science and technology, and encouraged the US to focus on those areas.
“We are going to survive together, or we are going to perish together,” Turner said.
