I don't know why you bring up this old speech. We now know that it was just lies.
On 24 Dec, 17:05, jgg1000a <[email protected]> wrote: > Bush's 2002 UN Speech... Let's see the reasons > > 1) 12 years failure in compliance with UNSC Chapter VII Resolutions > > 2) Failure to comply with the 1991 cease fire accord > > 3) Human Rights abuses of the Iraqi people, > > 4) Support for terrorism > > 5) Corrupting the Oil for Food program > > 6) an unwillingness to have an open and unfettered inspection process > concerning WMD > > Clearly Bush lists many reason for removing Saddam... > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912-1.html > > >>> Above all, our principles and our security are challenged today by outlaw > >>> groups and regimes that accept no law of morality and have no limit to > >>> their violent ambitions. In the attacks on America a year ago, we saw the > >>> destructive intentions of our enemies. This threat hides within many > >>> nations, including my own. In cells and camps, terrorists are plotting > >>> further destruction, and building new bases for their war against > >>> civilization. And our greatest fear is that terrorists will find a > >>> shortcut to their mad ambitions when an outlaw regime supplies them with > >>> the technologies to kill on a massive scale. > > In one place -- in one regime -- we find all these dangers, in their > most lethal and aggressive forms, exactly the kind of aggressive > threat the United Nations was born to confront. > > Twelve years ago, Iraq invaded Kuwait without provocation. And the > regime's forces were poised to continue their march to seize other > countries and their resources. Had Saddam Hussein been appeased > instead of stopped, he would have endangered the peace and stability > of the world. Yet this aggression was stopped -- by the might of > coalition forces and the will of the United Nations. > > To suspend hostilities, to spare himself, Iraq's dictator accepted a > series of commitments. The terms were clear, to him and to all. And he > agreed to prove he is complying with every one of those obligations. > > He has proven instead only his contempt for the United Nations, and > for all his pledges. By breaking every pledge -- by his deceptions, > and by his cruelties -- Saddam Hussein has made the case against > himself. > > In 1991, Security Council Resolution 688 demanded that the Iraqi > regime cease at once the repression of its own people, including the > systematic repression of minorities -- which the Council said, > threatened international peace and security in the region. This demand > goes ignored. > > Last year, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights found that Iraq > continues to commit extremely grave violations of human rights, and > that the regime's repression is all pervasive. Tens of thousands of > political opponents and ordinary citizens have been subjected to > arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, summary execution, and torture by > beating and burning, electric shock, starvation, mutilation, and rape. > Wives are tortured in front of their husbands, children in the > presence of their parents -- and all of these horrors concealed from > the world by the apparatus of a totalitarian state. > > In 1991, the U.N. Security Council, through Resolutions 686 and 687, > demanded that Iraq return all prisoners from Kuwait and other lands. > Iraq's regime agreed. It broke its promise. Last year the Secretary > General's high-level coordinator for this issue reported that Kuwait, > Saudi, Indian, Syrian, Lebanese, Iranian, Egyptian, Bahraini, and > Omani nationals remain unaccounted for -- more than 600 people. One > American pilot is among them. > > In 1991, the U.N. Security Council, through Resolution 687, demanded > that Iraq renounce all involvement with terrorism, and permit no > terrorist organizations to operate in Iraq. Iraq's regime agreed. It > broke this promise. In violation of Security Council Resolution 1373, > Iraq continues to shelter and support terrorist organizations that > direct violence against Iran, Israel, and Western governments. Iraqi > dissidents abroad are targeted for murder. In 1993, Iraq attempted to > assassinate the Emir of Kuwait and a former American President. Iraq's > government openly praised the attacks of September the 11th. And al > Qaeda terrorists escaped from Afghanistan and are known to be in Iraq. > > In 1991, the Iraqi regime agreed to destroy and stop developing all > weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles, and to prove to > the world it has done so by complying with rigorous inspections. Iraq > has broken every aspect of this fundamental pledge. > > From 1991 to 1995, the Iraqi regime said it had no biological weapons. > After a senior official in its weapons program defected and exposed > this lie, the regime admitted to producing tens of thousands of liters > of anthrax and other deadly biological agents for use with Scud > warheads, aerial bombs, and aircraft spray tanks. U.N. inspectors > believe Iraq has produced two to four times the amount of biological > agents it declared, and has failed to account for more than three > metric tons of material that could be used to produce biological > weapons. Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that > were used for the production of biological weapons. > > United Nations' inspections also revealed that Iraq likely maintains > stockpiles of VX, mustard and other chemical agents, and that the > regime is rebuilding and expanding facilities capable of producing > chemical weapons. > > And in 1995, after four years of deception, Iraq finally admitted it > had a crash nuclear weapons program prior to the Gulf War. We know > now, were it not for that war, the regime in Iraq would likely have > possessed a nuclear weapon no later than 1993. > > Today, Iraq continues to withhold important information about its > nuclear program -- weapons design, procurement logs, experiment data, > an accounting of nuclear materials and documentation of foreign > assistance. Iraq employs capable nuclear scientists and technicians. > It retains physical infrastructure needed to build a nuclear weapon. > Iraq has made several attempts to buy high-strength aluminum tubes > used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. Should Iraq acquire > fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a > year. And Iraq's state-controlled media has reported numerous meetings > between Saddam Hussein and his nuclear scientists, leaving little > doubt about his continued appetite for these weapons. > > Iraq also possesses a force of Scud-type missiles with ranges beyond > the 150 kilometers permitted by the U.N. Work at testing and > production facilities shows that Iraq is building more long-range > missiles that it can inflict mass death throughout the region. > > In 1990, after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the world imposed economic > sanctions on Iraq. Those sanctions were maintained after the war to > compel the regime's compliance with Security Council resolutions. In > time, Iraq was allowed to use oil revenues to buy food. Saddam Hussein > has subverted this program, working around the sanctions to buy > missile technology and military materials. He blames the suffering of > Iraq's people on the United Nations, even as he uses his oil wealth to > build lavish palaces for himself, and to buy arms for his country. By > refusing to comply with his own agreements, he bears full guilt for > the hunger and misery of innocent Iraqi citizens. > > In 1991, Iraq promised U.N. inspectors immediate and unrestricted > access to verify Iraq's commitment to rid itself of weapons of mass > destruction and long-range missiles. Iraq broke this promise, spending > seven years deceiving, evading, and harassing U.N. inspectors before > ceasing cooperation entirely. Just months after the 1991 cease-fire, > the Security Council twice renewed its demand that the Iraqi regime > cooperate fully with inspectors, condemning Iraq's serious violations > of its obligations. The Security Council again renewed that demand in > 1994, and twice more in 1996, deploring Iraq's clear violations of its > obligations. The Security Council renewed its demand three more times > in 1997, citing flagrant violations; and three more times in 1998, > calling Iraq's behavior totally unacceptable. And in 1999, the demand > was renewed yet again. > > As we meet today, it's been almost four years since the last U.N. > inspectors set foot in Iraq, four years for the Iraqi regime to plan, > and to build, and to test behind the cloak of secrecy. > > We know that Saddam Hussein pursued weapons of mass murder even when > inspectors were in his country. Are we to assume that he stopped when > they left? The history, the logic, and the facts lead to one > conclusion: Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave and gathering danger. > To suggest otherwise is to hope against the evidence. To assume this > regime's good faith is to bet the lives of millions and the peace of > the world in a reckless gamble. And this is a risk we must not take. > > Delegates to the General Assembly, we have been more than patient. > We've tried sanctions. We've tried the carrot of oil for food, and the > stick of coalition military strikes. But Saddam Hussein has defied all > these efforts and continues to develop weapons of mass destruction. > The first time we may be completely certain he has a -- nuclear > weapons is when, God forbids, he uses one. We owe it to all our > citizens to do everything in our power to prevent that day from > coming. > > 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 ... > > läs mer » --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
