| The Wall Street Journal... BY COLIN L. POWELL
I'm glad to see the White House press office play a little hardball. It's about time. |
Posted on 02/03/2003 9:19:30 AM PST by Txslady
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
We Will Not Shrink From War Iraq has flouted the will of the world with its deceptions and empty claims.
President Bush warned in his State of the Union address that "the gravest danger facing America and the world is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons." Exhibit A is Saddam Hussein's Iraq. As the president said, we need only look at how Saddam has terrorized, oppressed and murdered his own people to understand his methods. And, perhaps most critically, the president confirmed that Iraq has open channels and ties to terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda.
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I suspect they will pass that test because to fail it is to become irrelevant. We shall see.
| The Wall Street Journal... BY COLIN L. POWELL
I'm glad to see the White House press office play a little hardball. It's about time. |
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The one-time Newspaper of Record takes another dagger. These sorts of semi-official op-eds from Administration Big Names used to automatically go to Howell Raines' increasingly irrelevant fish wrapper.