Posted on 01/29/2003 2:44:06 AM PST by Clive
In last night's State of the Union address, U.S. President George Bush accurately summed up the true threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
"The gravest danger facing America and the world," he said, "is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. These regimes could use such weapons for blackmail, terror and mass murder.
"They could also give or sell those weapons to terrorist allies, who would use them without the least hesitation."
Precisely. Does anyone - anyone - seriously believe that Saddam is incapable of such acts when, as Bush rightly noted, he has routinely shown his "utter contempt for the United Nations and for the opinion of the world"?
The issue is not that Iraq is no threat to "us".
So what? He can strike at Israel with SCUDS, as he did in the 1991 Gulf war, only this time armed with chemical warheads or nerve gas.
That could set off Armageddon in the Mideast.
As Bush noted last night, Saddam could equip Al-Qaida, or any other terrorist group, with the means to launch an attack on North America that would make Sept. 11, as horrible it was, pale by comparison. The report of chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix this week proved Bush's point last night that - "the dictator of Iraq is not disarming. To the contrary, he is deceiving."
As Bush added, "trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, it is not an option ... We will consult, but make no mistake, if Saddam Hussein does not fully disarm ... we will lead a coalition to disarm him."
Why must we wait until Saddam is equipped with nuclear weapons - like North Korea's malignant fruitcake Kim Jong-il, who now has to be handled with kid gloves because of that?
You don't wait for a snake to strike.
As Bush warned in his first State of the Union speech following Sept. 11, the fight against terrorism will be long, difficult and fought on many fronts, with no quick or easy victories.
It cannot be won by faint-hearted leaders and nations that, in the face of terrorism, go into a state of denial, as is the case with France, Germany and saddest of all, it seems, Canada.
It cannot be won by faint-hearted leaders and nations that, in the face of terrorism, go into a state of denial, as is the case with France, Germany and saddest of all, it seems, Canada."
And even sadder the American Democrats.
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