You people that don't want to start the war without UN approval just don't understand the threat Saddam poses to the world. We must deny Iraq the capacity to continue making and using WMD again as he has done in the past! Our great president has articulated this threat and his rationale recently:
PRESIDENT BUSH: Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade and much of his nation's welfare not on providing for the Iraqi people but on developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. And when I say to him you have used weapons of mass destruction before, we are determined to deny you the capacity to use them again. (Applause)
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, the United States does not relish moving alone, because we live in a world that is increasingly interdependent. We would like to be partners with other people. But sometimes we have to be prepared to move alone. You used the anthrax example. Think how many can be killed by just a tiny bit of anthrax, and think about how it's not just that Saddam Hussein might put it on a Scud missile, an anthrax head, and send it on to some city he wants to destroy. Think about all the other terrorists and other bad actors who could just parade through Baghdad and pick up their stores if we don't take action. I far prefer the United Nations, I far prefer the inspectors, I have been far from trigger-happy on this thing, but if they really believe that there are no circumstances under which we would act alone, they are sadly mistaken. That is not a threat. I have shown I do not relish this thing. Every time it's discussed around here, I say one of the great luxuries of being the world's only superpower for a while -- and it won't last forever probably, but for a while -- is that there is always time enough to kill. And therefore we have a moral responsibility to show restraint and to seek partnerships and alliances, and I've done that. But I don't have to explain to my grandchildren why we took a powder on what we think is a very serious biological and chemical weapons programs potentially by a country that has already used chemical weapons on the Iranians and on the Kurds, their own people. |
