From: "Randy H" 

Substitue the US for Iraq in Bush's UN Address and it's almost spooky.

"Mark Hessey"  wrote in message
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>
> "Phil Payne"  wrote: So,
since pre-emptive
action
> was taken in Iraq's case, there must have been a "sufficient threat".
> > I'd like to know what it was, since neither WMD nor any delivery systems
> > for same capable of reaching hte USA have been found after nine months.
>
> Bush laid it all out 6 months before the war started in his UN address of
> 9/12/2002:
>
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912-1.html
>
> "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the
United
> Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of U.N. demands
> with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United
> Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions
to
> be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the
United
> Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?
>
> The United States helped found the United Nations. We want the United
> Nations to be effective, and respectful, and successful. We want the
> resolutions of the world's most important multilateral body to be
enforced.
> And right now those resolutions are being unilaterally subverted by the
> Iraqi regime. Our partnership of nations can meet the test before us, by
> making clear what we now expect of the Iraqi regime.
>
> If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will immediately and unconditionally
> forswear, disclose, and remove or destroy all weapons of mass destruction,
> long-range missiles, and all related material.
>
> If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will immediately end all support for
> terrorism and act to suppress it, as all states are required to do by U.N.
> Security Council resolutions.
>
> If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will cease persecution of its
civilian
> population, including Shi'a, Sunnis, Kurds, Turkomans, and others, again
as
> required by Security Council resolutions.
>
> If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will release or account for all Gulf
> War personnel whose fate is still unknown. It will return the remains of
any
> who are deceased, return stolen property, accept liability for losses
> resulting from the invasion of Kuwait, and fully cooperate with
> international efforts to resolve these issues, as required by Security
> Council resolutions.
>
> If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will immediately end all illicit
trade
> outside the oil-for-food program. It will accept U.N. administration of
> funds from that program, to ensure that the money is used fairly and
> promptly for the benefit of the Iraqi people...."
>
>
> >
> > --
> >   Phil Payne
> >   http://www.isham-research.com
> >   +44 7785 302 803
> >   +49 173 6242039
>
>

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