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To: techguerrilla who wrote (14526)	3/13/2003 4:14:43 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

US hawks press Bush to go to war, UN or not By Roland Watson in Washington, Richard Beeston and Philip Webster March 13, 2003 PRESIDENT BUSH is facing increasing pressure from hawks to cut his losses at the United Nations and strike Iraq without further delay. The injudicious comments by Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, that the United States could go to war without Britain has prompted Americans sceptical of the UN to wonder aloud why Mr Bush is prolonging the waiting game. “My guess is that the Administration will stay with it as long as there’s a reasonable chance of getting the necessary votes,” Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser and unofficial leader of the Washington hawks, told The Times. “But the more people ask themselves: ‘Why are we going through this to persuade the unpersuadable?’ — the more difficult it becomes to give a serious answer.” Others are more outspoken. “Walk away, Mr President. Walk away from the UN Security Council,” wrote Charles Krauthammer, a Washington Post columnist who reflects the views of the Republican Right. “It will not authorise the coming war. You can stand on your head and it won’t change the outcome. You can convert to Islam in a Parisian mosque and it won’t prevent a French veto.” timesonline.co.uk

To: techguerrilla who wrote (14526)	3/16/2003 4:02:15 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Bush's presidency By Jolyon Ticer-Wurr Commentary The Chicago Tribune Published March 15, 2003 Chicago -- What kind of president would use a tragedy on the scale of Sept. 11 to whip the United States into a war posture against Iraq? What kind of a president would seek to whip a nation into indignant war fury with a set of fantastical strategic justifications that change weekly? What kind of a president would thrust the United States into the embrace of a radical new policy of pre-emptive war even when that war may kill tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children, as well as many of America's sons and daughters? What kind of a president would have his henchman engage in name-calling and national belittlement when decent and respectable representatives of other countries long allied with the U.S. balk at the warmongering hysteria? What kind of a president would use threats of economic punishment against small and desperately poor African nations in order to gain their acquiescence to a Security Council vote to unleash bloody attacks on another nation? What kind of a president would take a legalistic, non-popular-vote election victory and use it as a mandate to move a fringe element of foreign policy ideologues to the center of U.S. foreign policymaking? A president who is the antithesis of American democratic ideals. A president who is a dangerous demagogue. The good citizens of the United States of America must resist with all their democratic might. Copyright © 2003, Chicago Tribune chicagotribune.com