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

To: American Spirit who wrote (368597)	3/8/2003 8:17:45 PM
From: SecularBull	Respond to of 769667

Please give us the details of your proposed stimulus package for individuals and small business. ~SB~

To: American Spirit who wrote (368597)	3/8/2003 11:57:03 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The only reason Saddam has made his insignificant move to destroy a few missiles has been because he has some quarter of a million hostile troops surrounding his country. That is the only sort of pressure that works with him. For nearly twelve years we've tried sanctions and Saddam has comfortably sat in one of his hundreds of opulently decked-out palaces while his own people suffered and died. Why now? Why attack Saddam now? It betrays the low IQ of Americans that they should even have to ask this question. From 1992-2000 Clinton did nothing at all to make Saddam abide by his promises to disarm. Dubya came into office and tried to put on pressure by continuing sanctions for another year in order to effect compliance. It was a wasted year as far as Saddam goes. Then 911 happened, and that changed everything. Bush understood that a war was already underway and that it was being waged against the United States by tens of thousands of stateless muslims who have wide and deep support of muslims across the world. The spontaneous cheering and applause that erupted amongst muslims across the world showed that the support exists even amongst Joe Mohammed in the streets. You can bet that Bush understands that in this climate America can ill afford to allow Saddam to continue breaking his promise to the U.N. The U.N. has for nearly twelve years shown that it has little integrity, that its warnings are worthless, that it cannot be trusted to keep its word. It proved that by allowing Saddam to ignore its obligations under U.N. Resolution 687 beginning back in 1991. Now the U.N. has certainly proved its lack of integrity with its Resolution 1441. In Resolution 1441 the U.N. claims "that in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programs to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, sub-components, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programs, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;" Did Iraq provide this? Absolutely not. It provided some 12,000 pages of crap. It's disclosure was not complete and it was not full. The U.N. in Resolution 1441 also claimed "that...failure by Iraq at any time to comply with, and cooperate fully in the implementation of, this resolution shall constitute a further material breach of Iraq's obligations..." Has Iraq's cooperation been complete? Even the idiot Blix himself claims it is not complete. Yet Resolution 1441 makes the claim that if Iraq is not in complete cooperation with the Resolution's implementation, it's failure will mean Iraq is in material breach of its obligations. That means from 1991-2003 Iraq has mooned the U.N. and its worthless Resolutions. Now finally the U.N. declared in Resolution 1441 that it has repeatedly warned Iraq that it will face serious consequences as a result of its continued violations of its obligations;. Well, Iraq is certainly in continued violation of its obligations. But, being led by such cowards as the French, the U.N. yet fails to uphold the integrity of its Resolution. It merely continues to prove its word means very little. The post-911 world ought not allow Saddam to continue his lies. But since it is clear that only America and Great Britain have the guts to stand up and protect themselves, they ought to simply go it alone. Bush cannot allow Saddam to exploit the weaknesses of France, Germany, Russia and China. If Bush fails to go into Iraq, and Saddam is allowed to develop apocalyptic weaponry which is eventually used against us, his current enemies will, perhaps to a man, claim he was wrong NOT to have stopped Saddam. Bush needs to continue dismissing his critics as naive - because that is precisely what they are. The time to strike is right friggin' now. Each time Bush gives Saddam "jess one mo tyme," he allows Saddam to push us around via the Boneless Wonders in the U.N. Bush has the moral authority to mash de button right now. If when St. Pat's Day comes we ain't done whacked Iraq or done got dang near to it, then in my opinion Saddam wins.