Bush out, says Soros

BBC NEWS reports that US multi-billionaire George Soros has called for 
"regime change" — that he wants an end to the Bush administration.

"I am very hopeful that people will wake up and realise that they have been 
led down the garden path, that actually September 11 has been hijacked by a 
bunch of extremists to put into effect policies that they were advocating 
before, such as the invasion of Iraq."

Soros added that there was a "false ideology" behind the policies of the 
Bush administration.

"There is a group of — I would call them extremists — who have the belief 
that international relations are relations of power, not of law, that 
international law will always follow what power has achieved", he said.

"And therefore [they believe] the United States being the most powerful 
nation on earth should impose its power, impose its will and its interests 
on the world and it should do it looking after itself.

"I think this is a very dangerous ideology. It is very dangerous because 
America is in fact very powerful."

George Soros said he felt the rift between the US and the United Nations 
over the war — which President Bush referred to as a "difficult and 
defining moment" for the UN — had in fact strengthened the UN, rather than 
weakened it.

"I think that the United States has over-reached", he said. "What happens 
to extremists is that they go to extremes and the falsehood in their 
ideology becomes apparent.

Soros' own "regime change"

Mr Soros has his own history of changing regimes by using his huge 
financial resources to achieve his preferred objectives and he usually does 
not do this through the UN.

Soros said, "In Bosnia we gave it to UNHCR — but that was really quite the 
exception. We do interfere in the internal affairs of states, but based on 
supporting people inside the country who take a certain stance. We have 
actually been quite effective in bringing about democratisation, democratic 
regime change in Slovakia, Croatia and Yugoslavia, but that's by helping 
civil society in those countries to mobilise."

In June this year he announced he would be drastically cutting back the 
money he gave to Russia says the BBC report.