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Kindgo
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Excerpts From the President's Remarks at The American Enterprise Institute
Again, just in case...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...-2003Feb26.html
"The safety of the American people depends on ending this direct and growing threat. Acting against the danger will also contribute greatly to the long term safety and stability of our world? America's interests in security, and America's belief in liberty, both lead in the same direction: to a free and peaceful Iraq."
"Bringing stability and unity to a free Iraq will not be easy. Yet that is no excuse to leave the Iraqi regime's torture chambers and poison labs in operation. Any future the Iraqi people choose for themselves will be better than the nightmare world that Saddam Hussein has chosen for them."
"The world has a clear interest in the spread of democratic values, because stable and free nations do not breed the ideologies of murder; they encourage the peaceful pursuit of a better life. And there are hopeful signs of the desire for freedom in the Middle East -- And from Morocco to Bahrain and beyond, nations are taking genuine steps toward political reform. A new regime in Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom to other nations of the region."
"Rebuilding Iraq will require a sustained commitment from many nations, including our own: We will remain in Iraq as long as necessary, and not a day more. America has made and kept this kind of commitment before -- in the peace that followed a world war. After defeating enemies, we did not leave behind occupying armies, we left constitutions and parliaments. We established an atmosphere of safety, in which responsible, reform-minded local leaders could build lasting institutions of freedom. In societies that once bred fascism and militarism, liberty found a permanent home."
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Bush: Democratic Iraq could be 'inspiring example'
Just in case, here's a PRE-SPEECH story about what he is likely saying...
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast...q.un/index.html
Creating a "free and peaceful" Iraq will be a difficult task requiring a "sustained commitment" from the United States and other countries, but a new Iraq could serve as "a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom" throughout the Middle East, President Bush will say in a speech Wednesday evening.
"Any future the Iraqi people choose for themselves will be better than the nightmare world that Saddam Hussein has chosen for them," Bush will say in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute, according to excerpts released by the White House.
The United States, Britain and Spain say Iraq has missed its last chance to disarm peacefully. The three countries are working to line up U.N. Security Council members behind a proposed resolution that could clear the way for a war with Iraq led by the estimated 200,000-plus U.S. and British troops now massed in the Persian Gulf region.
In his speech, Bush will compare the rebuilding of Iraq to U.S. efforts after World War II to rebuild war-ravaged countries, including wartime enemies Germany and Japan.
"After defeating enemies, we did not leave behind occupying armies. We left constitutions and parliaments. We established an atmosphere of safety, in which responsible, reform-minded local leaders could build lasting institutions of freedom."
Bush will also say that the world community "has a clear interest in the spread of democratic values, because stable and free nations do not breed the ideologies of murder. They encourage the peaceful pursuit of a better life."
"Bringing stability and unity to a free Iraq will not be easy. Yet, that is no excuse to leave the Iraqi regime's torture chambers and poison labs in operation," Bush will say.
Hours before Bush's speech, France's prime minister warned that waging war on Iraq before giving diplomacy more time to work would be "perceived as precipitous and illegitimate."
France and two other veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council -- Russia and China -- oppose war and have urged the council not to cut short weapons inspections.
"Today, a military intervention when all the chances of a peaceful solution haven't yet been explored would divide the international community," French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said Wednesday in Paris. "Let's not deceive ourselves. Let us make no mistake: It would be perceived as precipitous and illegitimate." (Full story)
The possibility of war already has divided Britain's ruling party.
After hours of sometimes passionate debate in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Tony Blair won approval of a resolution calling on Iraq "to recognize this as its final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations."
But 199 lawmakers -- about a third of the house -- backed a resolution saying Blair had failed to make the case for war. Despite the defection of as many as 100 Labour members, the resolution was defeated. (Full story)
Amid all the talk of giving inspections more time, chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix told German weekly Die Zeit that it is not completely clear whether Iraq wants to comply with inspections.
"On the other hand, this country had eight years of inspections, four years without inspections and now 12 weeks with them. Is it now the right time to shut the door?" he said in an interview scheduled for publication Thursday.
"The whole thing is a process, which only moves along centimeter by centimeter," Blix said. "Even if Iraq would cooperate immediately, actively and unconditionally with us, we would need several months."
Blix said it would take a "big effort" on the part of Iraq to clarify remaining issues relating to its disarmament, but he added, "I don't think we can say that we have a very long list of disarmament issues.
"We welcome every step, and I have the impression that they stepped up their efforts lately."
His comments came as Iraq faces a Saturday deadline to begin dismantling an estimated 100 to 120 Al Samoud 2 missiles.
In the Security Council, the U.S.-backed proposal needs nine votes to pass with no vetoes from the permanent members. Among the council's 10 elected members, only Spain and Bulgaria have expressed support for the U.S.-British position, while Germany and Syria have said they would oppose it.
A compromise proposal by Canada -- which is not on the council -- to set a late March deadline for Iraq to meet specific disarmament goals appeared to have little support within the council, even among critics of the U.S. resolution.
The six uncommitted council members -- Angola, Cameroon, Pakistan, Mexico, Chile and Guinea -- are now the subject of intense lobbying efforts by the permanent five.
Diplomats said Mexico appeared to be leaning toward the U.S. position, but U.N. Ambassador Adolfo Aguilar Zinser said Wednesday that his government wanted to see inspections continue.
At the same time, U.S. diplomats are lobbying colleagues across the globe to support Bush's position on Iraq.
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