Powell: 'We are not occupiers' in Iraq

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Powell: 'We are not occupiers' in Iraq
Monday, September 15, 2003 Posted: 0016 GMT ( 8:16 AM HKT)



U.S. soldiers from the 101st Airborne prepare to break into a house during raids in Mosul Sunday.


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday said U.S. forces are not occupiers but liberators, shortly after the military said another American soldier had died in an attack on a U.S. convoy.

"We are not occupiers," Powell told a Baghdad news conference. "We have come under a legal term having to do with occupation under international law, but we came as liberators."

"We have liberated a number of countries, and we do not own one square foot of any of those countries, except where we bury our dead," Powell said on his first visit to Baghdad.

The secretary spoke just hours after an improvised explosive device ripped through an 82nd Airborne Division convoy west of Baghdad in Fallujah early Sunday, killing one soldier and wounding three others, according to the Coalition Press Information Center.

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This is the Hillarious quote for the day

Powell told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" on Sunday that Iraq remains "a little unstable in the central part of the country, but we knew it would be difficult."

:bounce: A little Unstable..... BAAAAWAAAHAAAA!