Posted on 11/22/2002 11:30:07 AM PST by ex-Texan
Saddam the new Hitler, Bush tells Europeans
By Anne Kornblut and Charles Sennott in Prague
The United States President, George Bush, has reminded Europeans of the heavy price they have paid for appeasing dictators and challenged NATO members to join him in confronting Saddam Hussein and fighting terrorism beyond Europe.
In a speech to students on the eve of a two-day NATO summit, Mr Bush compared the challenge of the Iraqi President to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, which led to World War II.
"Ignoring dangers or excusing aggression may temporarily avert conflict, but they don't bring true peace," he said.
Suggesting that terrorism was as dangerous as Hitler in the 1940s, Mr Bush told the teenagers: "We face perils we've never thought about, perils we've never seen before. They're just as dangerous as those perils that your fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers faced."
He demanded that Saddam "declare completely and truthfully his arsenal of terror" and threatened serious consequences if he failed to meet the December 8 deadline to disclose his weapons of mass destruction.
"Deception this time will not be tolerated; delay and defiance will invite the severest of consequences," Mr Bush told the students ahead of the summit, which began yesterday.
The debate over Iraq threatens to eclipse the original purpose of the summit: a vote approving the entry of seven new members, a step that troubles another important US ally, Russia.
Mr Bush will visit Russia to soothe any concerns of the President, Vladimir Putin, who also has reservations about going to war in Iraq.
Mr Bush admonished NATO members for failing to maintain strong military capacities, saying: "To meet all of this century's emerging threats, from terror camps in remote regions to hidden laboratories of outlaw regimes, NATO must develop new military capabilities.
"NATO forces must become better able to fight side-by-side. Those forces must be more mobile and more swiftly deployed."
He added: "Because many threats to NATO members come from outside of Europe, NATO forces must be organised to operate outside of Europe. When forces were needed quickly in Afghanistan, NATO's options were limited."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, who is in Prague, said Mr Bush might want to temper his remarks on present threat levels.
"Terrorism is a very serious menace; nonetheless, as of now it is still not as grave a threat as a US-Soviet war would have been. We were talking about 180 million fatalities in a nuclear exchange."
From The Boston Globe
I certainly hope that the children of Europe are more familiar with history than our "in-the-dark" kids.
<{;o) hi D!
Given the flaccid European response to the real Hitler, I'm not sure what Bush was expecting with this remark.
But just to be clear, I still think we should overthrow Hussein's regime, destroy all his WMDs, and annex his oil fields.
"Terrorism is a very serious menace; nonetheless, as of now it is still not as grave a threat as a US-Soviet war would have been. We were talking about 180 million fatalities in a nuclear exchange."
Excuse me Mr. Brzezinski, but two nuclear terrorist bombs going off (one in New York and a second in San Fransisco) will have what effect on the U.S. economy?
Drink some more kool-aid and go back to sleep. Thank God we have sober adults in charge.
Besides chemical and bio, what kind of WMD are we looking for, Zbig? Clue: They aren't pinatas filled with candy.....
Besides-hitler did not have NUKES, thank God, but saddamn soon might. A nuke could make hitler's slaughter of six million precious lives happen in a matter of seconds. President Bush is using VISION to prevent future mass destruction or worse, blackmail.
And that's why I completely agree with our policy. ..Read the last line of my post...again.
A nuke could make hitler's slaughter of six million precious lives happen in a matter of seconds.
No, it couldn't. Any nuke Iraq is capable of manufacturing would be in the 20KT range and kill 200,000 people at the very most, depending on where it was detonated.
You cannot put the gini back in the bottle. These losers are execrsizing their new found weapons, TERROR!
Taking pre-emptive measures is the appropriate response, but inspections by themselves aren't going to cut it. We need to invade Iraq.
Not really. Imagine Saddam if he gets his hands on some type of major bioweapon.
He'd use it to take over Europe. The guys a nut case . A Clinton-type in a dictatorship position!
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