TO: The President of the United States of America
FROM: who cares?
"Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna; trust not Trebonius; mark well Metellus Cimber; Decius Brutus loves thee not; thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius. There is but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal, look about you. Security gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee! Thy lover,
Artemidorus."
Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,
And as a suitor will I give him this.
My heart laments that virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation.
If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live;
If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2.3.
For Whom the Bell Tolls.... or the meltdown of the warmonger party:
October 22, 2002
U.S. set to try diplomacy with Iraq 'one more time'
By Betsy Pisik
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
NEW YORK - U.S. diplomats yesterday distributed a draft Security Council resolution that President Bush indicated would give Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein one last chance to meet the world's demands for his disarmament without facing military attack.
Saying he was ready to try diplomacy "one more time," Mr. Bush told reporters in Washington that he remained committed to regime change in Iraq but believed that could be achieved peacefully.
"The stated policy of our government, the previous administration and this administration, is regime change, because we don't believe he is going to change," Mr. Bush said after a meeting with NATO Secretary-General George Robertson.
"However, if he were to meet all the conditions of the United Nations, the conditions that I've described very clearly in terms that everybody can understand, that in itself will signal the regime has changed."
The remarks appeared to be an attempt to meet the demands of France and Russia, who are resisting any overt demand for Saddam's ouster before inspectors have had a chance to examine his weapons programs, without giving up a long-standing policy of calling for a change in the Iraqi leadership.
The Associated Press suggested yesterday that Mr. Bush and his top advisers were deliberately sending strategically mixed signals about whether Saddam could remain in power by changing the nature of the regime.
"We've tried diplomacy. We're trying it one more time. I believe the free world, if we make up our mind to, can disarm this man peacefully," Mr. Bush said yesterday. "But if not we have the will and the desire, as do other nations, to disarm Saddam."
The new draft resolution distributed to the four other permanent Security Council members yesterday removes or softens demands that were opposed by France and Russia.
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washtimes.com
So much for "Bush-the-warmonger".... |
