The good news is that it is easy to describe the problem in Iraq today, the bad news is it's tough to tackle it.
There will be no cutting and running in Iraq.
Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptancenot even todayof the disarmament which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace.
These reports do not contend that weapons of mass destruction remain in Iraq, but nor do they exclude that possibility. They point to lack of evidence and inconsistencies, which raise question marks, which must bestraightenedout, if weaponsdossiersaretobe closed and confidence is to arise.
Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country. And we will help them rid Iraq of these killers.
Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the termnamely a credible device capable of being delivered against a strategic city target.
It makes no more sense to launch an assault on our civil liberties as the best way to get at terrorists than it did to launch an invasion on Iraq as the best way to get at Osama Bin Laden.
At dawn prayers today on March 20 2003 (17 Muharram 1424), the criminal, reckless little Bush and his aides committed this crime that he was threatening to commit against Iraq and humanity.
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