Chris Matthews says "I was in the Peace Corps. Anybody who spent three seconds in a third world country was told don‘t talk politics or they‘ll kick you out of the country. "



Chris Matthews says "I was in the Peace Corps. Anybody who spent three seconds in a third world country was told don‘t talk politics or they‘ll kick you out of the country. "

MATTHEWS: General, you don‘t have to be a Marine to expect third world people to resent occupation.

I was in the Peace Corps. Anybody who spent three seconds in a third world country was told don‘t talk politics or they‘ll kick you out of the country.

How could the people believe at the Pentagon seriously that an Arab country would welcome us, that there would not be a sense of being occupied?

ZINNI: It‘s hard to believe. I mean, we‘re viewed as crusaders, as colonial powers, especially when we don‘t come in under a U.N. mandate that shows some sort of international legitimacy for what we‘re doing.

As a single country, almost unilaterally with a few allies involved in this occupation, it clearly sends the wrong signals, and it plays into the hands of those extremists that want to use it against us on the streets of Baghdad.