Iraq’s former prime minister and current foreign minister
Ibrahim al-Jaafari is infamous for his verbiage. The man should have been a
philosopher or a writer rather than a politician as he is given to go on and on
about esoteric topics. While he was in power in 2005 for example, he ran into
an American diplomat and decided to give her marriage
advice. Jaafari told her that physical appearance deteriorated with age,
but moral beauty lasted forever and that was what she should look for in a
husband. Another example was when Jaafari made his first trip to Washington to meet
President George Bush. Upon greeting the president the premier went on to talk
about Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and whom he thought were the best
presidents of the United States. Bush was not amused, as he wanted to talk
about the situation in Iraq, which was heading towards civil war at the time.
That eventually happened, but not before Jaafari had his say about American
history. Jaafari is still given to these long streams of consciousness.
SOURCES
Gordon, Michael and Trainor, General Bernard, The Endgame, The Inside Story Of The
Struggle For Iraq, From George W. Bush To Barack Obama, New York, Pantheon,
2012
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