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UN Speech CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 weapons inspectors to return. Others objected to any talk of war, and a few fretted openly about ■their bleak choices. * “We are facing a lot of very, very difficult challenges and choic es, and I guess we will have to choose among a lot of bad options,” said Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen. Addressing the General Assembly just before Bush, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged caution. “When states de cide to use force to deal with broad er threats to international peace I and security, there is no substitute for the unique legitimacy provided by the United Nations,” he said. But he also seemed to back Bush’s charges against Saddam, suggesting time was running short for Iraq to admit weapons inspec tors. “If Iraq’s defiance continues, the Security Council must face its re sponsibilities,” Annan said. Defiant as ever, Iraq’s U.N. Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri blasted Bush. “He chooses to deceive the world and his own people by the longest series of fabrications that have ever been told by a leader of a nation,” Al-Douri said. In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said, “I don’t think that the case for preemptive at tack has been made conclusively yet. That doesn’t mean it can’t be.” Democrats like Daschle, D-S.D., are struggling to balance their concerns of going to war against the political dan gers of bucking a popular president. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Joseph Biden, D-Del., who on Wednesday said he strongly opposes unilater al U.S. military intervention, wel comed Bush’s speech “as a power ful indictment, by the United Nations own standards, of Saddam Hussein’s contempt for the world.” Republican lawmakers praised Bush’s speech and urged Democrats to yield quickly on a resolution authorizing action against Saddam - an act that would make Iraq an issue deep in the midterm election campaign. At the United Nations, the tension was palpable as Bush mingled with world leaders. Before their address es, Bush and Annan posed stiffly in a corridor until Annan murmured to the president, “Let’s shake.” Then the two joined hands and Bush placed an arm across Annan’s back. In the speech, Bush bluntly asked, “Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding or will it be irrelevant?” After completing his remarks, Bush drew a deep breath and blew it out again, his cheeks puffed and his frame slumped into a high backed seat. Bush does not believe Saddam can avoid confrontation with the United States, advisers said as the president laid out his conditions. “If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will immediately and un conditionally forswear, disclose and remove or destroy all weapons of mass destruction, long-range missiles, and all related material,” Bush said. He also demanded that Saddam stop supporting terror ism, persecuting minorities, trad ing oil illegally for other goods and account for a U.S. pilot and sol diers from other nations missing since the Persian Gulf War. Administration officials likened the demands to those Bush im I* toil the Taliban in the run-up ag Bi. Afghanistan. w sequel not spell out the con- As comply* Saddam’s refusal to officials t?nior administfation pi address the? to language in the w for military *s to the potential u of the United n: “The purpose doubted: The Sel should not be w olutions will be eY Council res- v There were doued from every comer 0?lowever’ 11 German Finance ]Vffrorld • ® Eichel, for example, w!r J an attack on Iraq coullt , Germany’s economic reco\ v Bush countered the cone with a damning account. . Saddam’s regime, including the t tempted assassination of Bush’s own father - former President George H.W. Bush. He said Saddam has stockpiles of deadly chemical and biological egts, and could build a nuclear sapon within a year if he secured sile material. “The first time we may be com etely certain he has nuclear eapons is when, God forbid, he ses one,” Bush said. Secretary of State Colin Powell, ho is here with Bush, will begin orking Friday with the Security ouncil’s four other permanent lembers - Russia, China, France nd Britain - on a resolution giving addam a deadline to disarm. Of the mr, only Britain has supported Sush thus far, but U.S. officials said Sush’s decision togototheU.N. first iad build momentum for his case. The resolution may not spell >ut the punishment if Iraq doesn t :omply, but it might address ush’s desire for a tougher apons inspection system, per N one backed by force, officials sa. USC Reacts CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 against himself,” and that, by not cooperating with U.N. inspectors, he had proven “only his con tempt” for the U.N. Bob Hardison, a second-year civil engineering student, said Iraq’s confirmed possession of weapons of mass destruction is enough reason for an invasion. * “I think we should go in there because the public doesn’t know everything; they only know so much,” Hardison said. “We can’t pass the point of them [Iraq] housing biological war fare.” Hardison said he thinks the Bush administration has made a wise move by seeking to gain in ternational support before going after Hussein. “That’s a good approach,” he said. “It’ll definitely be remem bered during his next election. It’s very wise from a diplomatic standpoint.” Though third-year interna tional studies student Julie Sproules applauds President Bush’s speech before the U.N., she | said she wasn’t sure he has the right motives. “It’s not a good idea for Bush to capitalize on a personal vendet ta,” Sproules said. “He needs more support, though I can see why he’s presenting it in a personal way be cause he’s trying to show leader ship. He’s not showing leadership within the governmental body, though, and I think he needs a consensus from Congress first be fore going through with his at tack” on Hussein. The president has empha sized his desire for congres sional support, however, ac cording to a statement the White House released last week. Whatever backing he has or gains, Ian Macdermut, a two year psychology student, still doesn’t want to see the United States go after Hussein. Invading Iraq “is probably not a good idea because that would be starting another war for no rea son; that’s kind of arbitrary,” Macdermut said. However President Bush might have managed to persuade world leaders of the danger Hussein pos es, Sproules says the only action left for the United States is to wait. “We haven’t been threatened to the point where we need to anni hilate Iraq,” Sproules said. “We should be thinking and prepar ing.” Comments on this story? 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