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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (297256)	9/16/2002 8:59:51 PM
From: rich4eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Like I have said all along it was about two things Oil and controlling Iran and now that Iran is not longer a threat we have a vendetta to serve. What a bunch of lying scum

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (297256)	9/16/2002 9:16:04 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

PROTEST IN Iowa: "DROP BUSH NOT BOMBS" on Protest Sign at Bush Bribery-fest CYNICAL HYPOCRISY OF BUSH EXPOSED ON IRAQ INSPECTIONS OFFER ****************** guardian.co.uk White House Dismisses Iraqi Offer Tuesday September 17, 2002 1:50 AM UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The White House dismissed an Iraqi offer Monday to let weapons inspectors return there unconditionally, calling it a tactical move that did not change the Bush administration's desire to remove Saddam Hussein. The White House released a written statement that called the offer ``a tactical step by Iraq in hopes of avoiding strong U.N. Security Council action.'' ``As such, it is a tactic that will fail,'' spokesman Scott McClellan said in the statement. ``This is not a matter of inspections. It is about disarmament of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the Iraqi regime's compliance with all other Security Council resolutions,'' McClellan said in Washington. The administration still is demanding a decree from the United Nations that would make plain that the organization will enforce the 16 resolutions Saddam has broken, McClellan said. The statement did not mention the White House's previous insistence that Iraq allow inspectors to go anywhere in the country, at any time. It demanded a ``new, effective U.N. Security Council resolution that will actually deal with the threat Saddam Hussein poses to the Iraqi people, to the region and to the world.'' A White House official speaking on condition of anonymity said the letter did not surprise the administration, because of a historical pattern of such 11th-hour communiques and because Bush administration officials had prior indications that Iraq was preparing it. The administration seeks three things in a new U.N. resolution: a list of Iraqi violations of previous resolutions; what Iraq needs to do to comply; and unspecified consequences Iraq will face if it does not. The new Iraqi offer meets none of the administration's demands, and U.S. officials see no reason to budge from its position, this official said. A second senior official described the White House's attitude toward the letter as ``very, very dismissive.'' Secretary of State Colin Powell said the U.N. Security Council is moving toward the U.S. position on Iraq, but France objected strongly to the Bush administration's insistence that Saddam must go. A senior U.S. official accompanying Powell said the Iraqi inspections letter was flawed partly because it did not include ``a promise to disclose or a disclosure of all of Iraq's prohibited weapons programs.'' As Powell consulted with council members, Secretary-General Kofi Annan, working with Iraqi and Arab League officials, came up with a letter pledging that Iraq would let U.N. weapons inspectors return unconditionally. Annan credited President Bush for the Iraqi reversal of policy. He said the president has ``galvanized the international community'' with his speech last Thursday. Earlier, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said, ``We have one goal, which is the fight against proliferation'' of weapons of mass destruction. ``There has been talk about working for regime change,'' de Villepin said. ``This is not included in the mandate of the United Nations. If we begin discussing it, where will it end? It's a totally different process.'' De Villepin spoke during a luncheon with reporters. The goal of removing Saddam from power was adopted during President Clinton's tenure, and President Bush, pursuing the objective, is threatening to use force to achieve it. The U.S. policy is that disarmament in Iraq, as ordered by U.N. Security Council resolutions, will not be possible so long as Saddam remains in power, with or without renewed U.N. inspections. Powell met Monday with delegates from several Security Council countries, including Britain, Colombia and Mexico. Also planned was an evening meeting with a fourth Council member, Syria. The administration favors a resolution that not only would mandate return of inspectors with full access to all areas of Iraq but also would permit the use of force should Iraq refuse. That stand goes beyond what France would be willing to accept. De Villepin said the resolution should be limited only to the need for the return of inspectors. If Iraq should refuse, he said, the Council should reconvene to debate what comes next. De Villepin suggested that three weeks would be a reasonable amount of time for Saddam to respond to a Security Council demand for the inspectors' return. At Dubuque, Iowa, the president pressed his case for deposing Saddam. Outside the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds, he called the Iraqi a ``tyrant (who) must be dealt with.'' About 100 demonstrators held signs that read, ``Drop Bush Not Bombs'' and ``Please No War in Iraq.''** ``If Iraq's regime continues to defy us and the world, (the United States) will move deliberately yet decisively to hold Iraq to account,'' with or without the United Nations, Bush said.