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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (28812)	9/25/2003 1:47:43 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

Politicians, experts weigh in on remarks usatoday.com Republicans praised President Bush's remarks to the United Nations on Tuesday, but Democrats and many foreign policy analysts were not swayed: •Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "If the purpose of the speech was to generate a significant amount of money and forces from the U.N., it failed." •Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.: "You don't want the headlines to read, 'President tries to placate the United Nations.' It was the right tone. He doesn't have anything to apologize for." •Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif.: "I am glad that the president finally went to the United Nations to ask for help in Iraq. With America losing soldiers every day and taxpayers spending more than a billion dollars every week, it is a situation that is spiraling out of control. That said, I remain concerned that President Bush has already undermined his rhetoric through his actions to develop new nuclear weapons and cancel vital programs to secure weapons overseas." •Leon Charney, adviser to President Carter on the Camp David Accords: "This is a political play by the Germans and the French, in my opinion. They are ready to sabotage anything that George Bush wants to do." •Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., chairman, House International Relations Committee: "The president has made a persuasive case for greater international support of our efforts to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan and to advance the war against global terrorism." •Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn.: "The people the president failed most in his remarks today were the 180,000 American troops who are shouldering the burden of stabilizing and rebuilding Iraq with only marginal support from other nations. By failing to seek the help of the United Nations and allies by offering concrete proposals to involve them, the president has once again denied us a chance to bring more resources, troops and legitimacy to this effort." •Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., Speaker of the House: "President Bush gave a comprehensive and compelling address to the United Nations. His leadership has strengthened the international community by leading the war against scourges such as terrorism and AIDS. Now the international community needs to step up to the plate and help the United States finish the job." •Mohamed El-Sayed Said, deputy director of Cairo's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies: "His message to the Middle East, to the Arabs particularly, was very negative. He practically blocked any hope on dynamic policy, on diplomacy, on the Palestinian issue." •Guillaume Parmentier, director, French Center on the United States, French Institute for International Relations: "He's not really making the right division between security, which should be handled by the occupying power, and the political future of Iraq, which should be handled by the U.N." •Tom Cardamone, executive director, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: "The president can't ask other countries to go halfway toward the U.S. position when the U.S. refuses to go halfway toward them. As international opinion of the United States continues to plummet and the situation in Iraq deteriorates, the president can ill afford to dismiss the concerns of the rest of the world." •Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., House majority whip: "President Bush definitively stated today that the divide between peace and chaos is clear. The United Nations must continue to partner in peace, assist with the rebuilding of Iraq and Afghanistan, and commit to the continued effort to rout out terrorist networks for the security of the free world." •Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and Democratic presidential candidate: "We run the risk that the result will be a U.N. Security Council resolution that does nothing — no new, desperately needed troops, no meaningful financial contributions — and that we Americans will continue to shoulder the burdens of this war alone."