Posted by altanta 99 on November 18, 2003 at 15:47:55:
In Reply to: poe posted by pam and on June 29, 2003 at 18:03:00:
"All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached an end. Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their failure to do so will result in military conflict, commenced at a time of our choosing...The United States of America has the sovereign authority to use force in assuring its own national security. That duty falls to me as commander of chief by the oath I have sworn -- by the oath I will keep...All Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen carefully to this warning. Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to the Iraqi people. Do not obey any command to use weapons of mass destruction against anyone, including the Iraqi people. War crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished and it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders'."
President Bush, from an address to the American people Monday, signaling an end to months of diplomacy and a prelude to war