Posted on 09/04/2002 3:14:52 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The following is the text of a September 4 letter that Bush gave to those members of Congress -- including House Speaker Dennis Hastert -- who attended Wednesday's meeting at the White House about Iraq.
America and the civilized world face a critical decision in the months ahead. The decision is how to disarm an outlaw regime that continues to posses and develop weapons of mass destruction, despite its own promises over the last decade and despite the condemnation of the world. Since September 11, we have been tragically reminded that we are vulnerable to evil people. And this vulnerability increases dramatically when evil people have access to weapons of mass destruction.
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The gauntlet has been thrown...
The international community must also be involved. I have asked Prime Minister Blair to visit America this week to discuss Iraq. I will also reach out to President Chirac of France, President Putin of Russia, President Jiang of China, and other world leaders.
Translation: The U.S. will not act unilaterally.
There will be no war. Deo gratia.
I don't care how much money I’ve got to spend
I’ve got to get back to Baghdad again
Saddam's days are gone
I'm going home; my baby just wrote me a letter
Well he wrote me a letter, said he couldn't live with me no more
Listen mister, can't you see I’ve got to get back to my bunker once more?
Anyway, yeah, give me a ticket for an aeroplane
I ain't got time to take a fast train
Saddam's days are gone
I'm going home, because my baby just wrote me a letter
My baby just wrote me a letter
Dear Mr. Speaker:
America and the civilized world face a critical decision in the months ahead. Realizing that you have to deal with Gephardt, Dasshole and their ilk, the facts require that we crush and eliminate one of many outlaw regimes that continues to posses and develop weapons of mass destruction, despite its own promises over the last decade and despite the condemnation of the world. Since September 11, we have been tragically reminded of the eight sick Clinton years of inaction and empty words so that we are now so vulnerable to evil people. And this vulnerability increases dramatically when evil people have access to weapons of mass destruction, many of which were probably sold by the previous administration, or at least allowed. As much as I wish I could, I would change that. I can't so I must waste my time so the members of Congress don't feel left out of what I am going to do.
I know the ever campaigning poseurs who comprise the main of the Members of Congress could care less that Saddam Hussein's regime is still a threat to peace, as it was when you passed the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 and did nothing whatsoever to see that my grifting predecessor acted accordingly. I also know members of the United Nations feign anger that this regime continues to thumb its nose at the world, defying at least 16 U.N. Security Council resolutions adopted between 1990 and 1999 that require Iraq to disarm and give up weapons of mass destruction, to stop threatening its neighbors and to stop oppressing the Iraqi people, but that the U.N. is more interested in hookers and the high life and the destruction of all things American. We will deal with those *ssholes, later.
In any event, America needs to make certain that the Saddam Hussein regime is not able to threaten anyone in the world with the world's most devastating weapons, because the namby pamby appeasers will not.
I have decided how to proceed. As noted, so as to avoid the headaches occasioned by the whining of the wimps in Congress, I am acting like I want discussion and debate. The Congress will hold hearings on Iraq this month, and I have asked members of my Administration to participate fully so as to reveal to the world (again) what a bunch of idiots can be elected given enough money and the help of the pressholes.
Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option. At an appropriate time and after consultations with the leadership, I will begrudgingly get congressional support for U.S. action to do whatever is necessary to deal with the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime. The Congress can then act like it played an important role in building a national consensus for action.
The international community must also be involved, as much as I really don't care what they think. I have asked Prime Minister Blair to visit America this week to discuss Iraq. I will also reach out to President Cheesehead, er, Chirac of France, President Putin of Russia, President Jiang of China, and other world leaders. I will have these discussions in advance of next week's meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. At that meeting, I will discuss the challenge that the current Iraqi regime represents to the United Nations and the entire international community. My Administration remains committed to the regime change policy enshrined in the Iraq Liberation Act. The world must address how the Iraqi people can be liberated from the bondage in which the regime holds them and realize a better future for their children.
We must not allow an outlaw regime that incites and uses terror at home and abroad to threaten the world by developing the ultimate weapons of terror, and please let the cowards of Congress know that will not happen. The months ahead will be important ones and the civilized world must come together to deal with the threat posed by the Iraqi regime. I trust that, after the krieg lights fade and your colleagues have gotten sufficient face time to satisfy their bloated egos, we can finally get to work.
Sincerely,
George. W. Bush
Translation: In order to make it clear that we are against the Iraqi regime and not the Iraqi people, I will ask for a congressional resolution supporting assassinations of world dictators and terrorists.
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