Posted on 02/12/2002 3:47:27 AM PST by mware
"JIM LEHRER: Another subject, Senator. Was the president right to label Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as being an axis of evil?
SEN. TOM DASCHLE: I don't think so. I think that it's important for us to look at each of these countries, Jim, as threats to this country clearly, as problems that we've got to address clearly, but I think we've got to be very careful with the rhetoric of that kind.
We've already seen the moderates in Iran scramble to draw distance between "us" and "them," and I think we've got to be very careful with how we approach all three countries.
He's right in calling attention to the danger they pose to the United States. He's right in calling for strategy. I would hope we could do it multilaterally and not unilaterally because I think that's where we get into trouble.
JIM LEHRER: Iraq seems to be the place though where there might be the most imminent action, if any, coming. Do you think the case has been made for the United States to take action, military action against Iraq?
SEN. TOM DASCHLE: I don't think it has right now. We have to be very concerned. We want to avoid at all costs the terror of 9/11. If they're building weapons of mass destruction, we've got to deal with it.
But I don't think the case has yet been made. We still have a major job to do with phase one of the war on terror. We still haven't found bin Laden. We still haven't found Mohammed Omar -- we haven't found a lot of those in al-Qaida around the world that have to be found in order to deal with that level of terror, so I think we've got to take first things first.
The president hasn't called for any military action, and I think that's exactly right; we shouldn't at this point.
JIM LEHRER: Do you expect as Senate Majority Leader to be consulted before there would be military action against Iraq?
SEN. TOM DASCHLE: ; we need to be involved not only in consultation but in decision making, and I would hope that that would happen.
JIM LEHRER: There have not been any preliminary conversations about this?
SEN. TOM DASCHLE: There have not, no."
The NEW AXIS OF EVIL!!!
Iraq, Iran, North Korea & D'Asch_Hole_cRATS
The man has reached new lows putting him bascially on equal footing with the TRIMPOTUS (x42) he believed and defended;" PERIOD".
It is time for Tommy Bin Daschle to go.
Ping!!!
Yes, you're right. I know it, you know it and everyone else 'in the know' knows it. However, the game here is public perception to the 20%'ers.
GW can get dashole attacked without a word coming from his mouth.
Steady as she goes.
You bet.
along with Gephardt, Kennedy and Rodham-Clinton.
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