What Bush really said about Iraq -- excerpt from Bush's SOTU (REMINDER)(w. my major points about it)

White House ^ | January 28, 2003 | President George W. Bush

[Wolfstar]

On June 11, I posted the following thread regarding the President's address to the UN on 9/12/02. Here's the link [click here].

In that speech, the President layed out the case for overthrowing the Hussein regime. He also listed a series of FIVE demands for Hussein. Had Hussein met those demands, no war would have occurred. In the spirit of your excellent thread, which is to remind people of what the President ACTUALLY said, here are those five demands.

PLEASE NOTICE THAT ONLY ONE OF THOSE DEMANDS HAD TO DO WITH WMD. The media — yes, including the so-called conservative media — keeps repeating the LIE that we attacked Iraq solely because of the WMD issue.

[BEGIN EXERPT FROM BUSH 9/12/02 UN SPEECH]

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.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

We need to keep this front and center.The media is allowing the Democrats to totally distort and misrepresent what was actually said.I have been in self imposed exile today from the media-are the conservative talk show hosts stepping up to the plate? Any members of Congress stepping up? Hopefully, the White House is getting their ducks in a row.President Bush needs to come out swinging and take this away from the angry villagers with the torches, over at the DNC.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks Wolfstar for adding more perspective to this outright sham that the rats have tried to electronically lynch our president with.

[Wolfstar]

Perception and deception are the points they [the Left] live by and unfortunately the media is complicit in this endeavor.

Truer words were never spoken — or, in this case, written. However, we need not just accept this status quo, or sit back and take the hits. We can fight back through a variety of means:

• letters to the editor of our local papers;
• calls and emails to local and/or national talk radio shows;
• calls, emails and letters to our congress-critters and senators;
• emails to the various cable TV news shows;
• working through local political action groups and/or party HQ's to distribute this information door-to-door;
• web blogs, which are the newest form of news and information distribution.

For those who are so inclined, there are any number of ways to make a difference.

[FairOpinion]

"Our biggest enemy is stupidity, the most formidable of them all. "


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Stupidity and gullibility of the public is what the Democrats are counting on. They are taking a page from Hitler and Stalin of the "big lie" approach: keep repeating the lies as facts all the time, until it goes into the people's consciousness as fact.

The internet helps to bring the truth to the people, but we need conservative columnists to keep hammering on the truth, and point out the Dems lies.

[Wolfstar]

"...are the conservative talk show hosts stepping up to the plate?"

The ones I've heard here in the L.A. area are doing a weak to poor job. We here on FR actually seem to have come up with more useful info than they have, which is why emailing the talk jock of your choice would be a good idea.

[FairOpinion]

"On June 11, I posted the following thread regarding the President's address to the UN on 9/12/02

PLEASE NOTICE THAT ONLY ONE OF THOSE DEMANDS HAD TO DO WITH WMD. The media — yes, including the so-called conservative media — keeps repeating the LIE that we attacked Iraq solely because of the WMD issue."

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Excellent! I guess it's GMTA. :)

I missed your thread, but this is exactly what we need to do, keep pointing out the truth and hope that some of the columnists lurking (or even posting) on FR will be inspired to write articles based on the truth we are reminding them of.

[VOA]

. We all need to keep this thread handy to go on the offensive against the
attackers/anti-Bush posters on here!

I'll toss some relevant items (some I've posted previously) just to consolidate

The one guy who should be on with all the talking heads 24/7 on this issue is
(please sit down first) Kenneth M. Pollack, a Clinton administration official.
He is the author of The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq
It's at this URL at amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375509283/qid=1058313906/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-6916356-9635322

He also wrote an article for The New York Times (a month ago?) that summed up
a lot of his main points that NEED TO BE HAMMERED.
(I heard these summarized on The Laura Ingraham Show)

Main Point #1:
Pollack said that even in the time leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom,
he attended international arms control meetings with the likes of representives
from China, Russia, France, etc.
THERE WAS NO DOUBT or DISAGREEMENT as to whether Saddam had WMD programs; the only
point of disagreement was "How do we get rid of or neutralize Saddam?"

Main Point #2:
Saddam was keeping his WMD program going as a (in VOA's words) "capability-based"
program.
What this means is that he simply did all he could to poise his country's infrastructure
to make chem/bio WMDs as quickly as possible when needed/desired.
Thus he got permission to build plants for producing pharmaceuticals after
Gulf War I...but of course these could be rapidly re-configured to be cranking
out chem/bio WMDs and loaded into shells for the front.


Now...back to my (VOA's) view. Pollack just makes too much sense. It probably explains why
he's not on TV all the time.
And, even if only half of what Pollack says is true, it means Saddam, Uday,
Quasy, and all the Saddam-ites were just ticking time-bombs.

To paraphrase the old motor-oil commercial:
We were going to have to take 'em out sooner or later.
(and sooner was probably going to be a much cheaper job in the long haul)

[FairOpinion]

"And, even if only half of what Pollack says is true, it means Saddam, Uday,
Quasy, and all the Saddam-ites were just ticking time-bombs."

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Exactly. And this is precisely what Bush said in the SOTU address:

"Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in our power to make sure that that day never comes. (Applause.)"

[speedy]

I agree with what you say, but it is tough to come to grips with the fact that the vote of The Stupids counts as much as the vote of the well-informed, truth-seeking Freepers. I would like to see our side go more and more on the offensive about the causal relationship between ignorance and Democratic voters. LBJ used to actually brag about how ignorant people voted for him. I think it would help our cause to hammer home the idea that Democrats are flat out stupid. It ticks off the hardcore Dems, but may get some independents thinking they don't want to be associated with gullible morons. And the moron vote will always be considerable. I don't really think there is a Republican equivalent to the Rats useful idiots like union members and uneducated minorities.

[reformed_democrat]

Thanks for posting this.

A concise summary works wonders. The limited attention spans of sheeple tend to drift after 20 words or so . . .

[FairOpinion]

Here is an excellent article in the National Review, which puts the pieces together succinctly.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946785/posts

Scandal!--Bush’s enemies aren't telling the truth about what he said. (Uraniumgate)

[freeperfromnj]

President Bush needs to come out swinging and take this away from the angry villagers with the torches, over at the DNC.

He definitely does. President Bush has been doing a great job.... but "darn good intelligence" just isn't going to cut it in this case. I quickly flipped through the cable shows tonight and the rats are foaming at the mouth everywhere. I just didn't have the stomach to watch any of it. The Republicans aren't even putting anybody good out there to put the rats in check. The DNC thinks it has finally found an issue and with the help of the liberal media they are going to keep it front and center. The republicans need to get some heavy hitters out into the maintream media to get the truth out there.

[VOA]

Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein.

Like I tell some friends "sitting on the fence":
I wouldn't want doing an archeological dig in Iraq.
Saddam made many of the prime archeological sites "off limits", as he turned them
into mass burial grounds.

I'm not going to be shocked when the first bunch of archeologists die coughing
up their lungs due to anthrax...that one of their spade kicks up in the air
when it strikes a sealed, buried fruit jar full of weaponized anthrax spores.

[onyx]

A terrific and useful post! Thanks.

[FairOpinion]

What we need is to educate people and let them realize, with our help, that the Democrats have been lying to them all these years.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Perception and deception are the points they live by and unfortunately the media is complicit in this endeavor.

Sounds like McCarthyism all over again.

[PhiKapMom]

That's beneath contempt! Maybe that should be the Action Item on Countdown to Victory '04 tomorrow! Freep the RATS!

[Howlin]

This is getting completely out of control; I've always said they were desperate, but I'm SEEING it with my own eyes now.....I honestly believe there is NOTHING they will not say or do to get the power back.

[PhiKapMom]

I cannot believe the lack of positive articles out of Iraq. It is like a press embargo!