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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
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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
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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.”
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