Posted on 02/15/2003 6:17:28 AM PST by SuzanneC
An open letter from Neal Boortz to the President of the United States:
MR. PRESIDENT – MAY I BE SO PRESUMPTUOUS?
An open letter from Neal Boortz to the President of the United States:
Dear Mr. President
Today I watched the Security Council of the United Nations fail, once again, to live up to its responsibilities. The address by Hans Blix to the Security Council sounded as if it had been written by Saddam Hussein.
We met once, Mr. President, during the campaign, but there's no reason you should remember the occasion. I do want to ask, though, if I may be so presumptuous as to submit for your consideration the following speech to be delivered to the people of the United States.
My fellow Americans:
Almost twenty-five months ago I stood before the United States Capitol before you to recite a pledge to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Forty-two presidents before me have interpreted those words as a pledge to protect and defend this country from all enemies, whether those enemies be foreign or domestic, national governments or international terrorists, secular warlords or religious zealots. The grave responsibility a president accepts is to serve the interests of the American people and our Constitution, not to treat the interests of our people our Constitution to inferior to the desires and edicts of the United Nations.
We know that every dysfunctional personality needs an enabler to survive and prevail. This is as just as true when the dysfunctional personality is ruthless dictator who abuses and murders his subjects as it is for a person who abuses alcohol or drugs.
Saddam Hussein is dysfunctional; dangerously dysfunctional, and has found his enabler in the United Nations and in the nations of this world who seek to appease and comfort him rather than to force him to address and correct his aberrant behavior.
Today the French Foreign Minister told the United Nations Security Council “war is always the sanction of failure.” Well, the French Foreign Minister is absolutely correct. In this context, “sanction” means “penalty.” And war is, indeed, the penalty for failure; and on this day the world stands witness to failure on two fronts.
First, we have documented the failure of Saddam Hussein to live up to his repeated promises to meet the requirements of over 17 United Nations resolutions dealing with disarmament. We have also seen the abject and continuing failure of the United Nations to enforce its sanctions against Saddam.
It is now clear that the United Nations has made it’s choice. The UN role will be appeasement, not enforcement. The United Nations will continue to play the role of enabler for a dysfunctional and dangerous tyrant. In three months the United Nations will convene a conference on disarmament. Saddam's Hussein's Iraq will co-chair this conference. This, my friends, is the surreal world of the United Nations, where a country that refuses to abide by its promises to disarm is rewarded with the co-chairmanship of a conference on disarmament.
While the United Nations pursues the role of enabler, the role I must pursue is clear; and I restate it for you now.
I am privileged to serve the citizens of the greatest country in the history of civilization. I intend to honor the pledge I took to protect this great country and its people, and I renew that pledge to you this evening. The United Nations can serve whatever interests it deems best. We’ve tried to work with this body to address the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, but it is now clear the United Nations is unwilling to step up to do the job. I, however, am ready to do mine.
I'll close this message tonight by speaking directly to Saddam Hussein.
Mr. Hussein, your time is up. You have developed menacing weapons, and you have shown your willingness to use those weapons, even against your own people. You have murdered and tortured, threatened and terrorized. You have dispatched rape squads to control and punish your detractors. We've seen enough. We know enough.
It is now time for you to stop your program of deceit and terror .. and the United States and its allies, those nations with the courage to act when the need is great, are going to see to it that you do. We’ve endured 12 years of your deception, brutality and deviance. Our patience is at an end.
You have two choices, Mr. Hussein. You can leave and survive, or you can stay and die. If you leave, we will not follow. If you stay, we will pursue.
Make your choice, Mr. Hussein, but make it fast.We’re on our way.
Thank you, my fellow Americans. And my thanks to those leaders in the world who fear the consequences of a failure to act more than they do the changing winds of public opinion. And may God bestow his blessings on the United States of America, and his infinite mercy on Saddam Hussein.
That's it, Mr. President. I know I'm no Peggy Noonan .. but feel free to use it if you like it. No need for attribution, and I promise not to tell a soul.
That is interesting. Can you cite some examples?
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