Lost Cause
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Can't argue with this...can you?
Iraq must agree -- and soon -- to free, full, unfettered access to these sites anywhere in the country," he said.
U.S. objectives are to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and to reduce Hussein's capacity to
threaten his neighbors. "I am quite confident,... that we can achieve
the objective and secure our vital security interests," the president said.
He said U.S. forces are ready and that he has complete confidence
in service members who would be called upon to make any attack.
The president called U.S. service members the best-led, best-equipped, best-prepared armed force in the world.
"Should it prove necessary for me to exercise the option of
force, your commanders will do everything they can to protect the
safety of all the men and women under their commands," the president said.
"No military action, however, is risk free. I know that the people we
may call upon in uniform are ready. The American people have to be
ready as well."
The president detailed Hussein's lies and evasions since the end of the
Gulf War. Under the agreement ending the war, Hussein had 15 days to
report about his nuclear, chemical and biological arsenal. "Iraq has
repeatedly made false declarations about the weapons that it had left
in its possession after the Gulf War," the president said.
U.N. inspectors have found proof time and again that Iraq lied
about its nuclear program, the president said. The Iraqis simply amended
their declaration to incorporate the discoveries.
Iraq must agree -- and soon -- to free, full, unfettered access to these sites anywhere in the country," he said.
U.S. objectives are to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and to reduce Hussein's capacity to
threaten his neighbors. "I am quite confident,... that we can achieve
the objective and secure our vital security interests," the president said.
He said U.S. forces are ready and that he has complete confidence
in service members who would be called upon to make any attack.
The president called U.S. service members the best-led, best-equipped, best-prepared armed force in the world.
"Should it prove necessary for me to exercise the option of
force, your commanders will do everything they can to protect the
safety of all the men and women under their commands," the president said.
"No military action, however, is risk free. I know that the people we
may call upon in uniform are ready. The American people have to be
ready as well."
The president detailed Hussein's lies and evasions since the end of the
Gulf War. Under the agreement ending the war, Hussein had 15 days to
report about his nuclear, chemical and biological arsenal. "Iraq has
repeatedly made false declarations about the weapons that it had left
in its possession after the Gulf War," the president said.
U.N. inspectors have found proof time and again that Iraq lied
about its nuclear program, the president said. The Iraqis simply amended
their declaration to incorporate the discoveries.
