Posted on 12/09/2002 7:39:14 PM PST by HAL9000
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States is the only country able to fight a "twin-headed'' monster -- Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein -- in its efforts to eradicate terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said Monday."Evil has never been so technically difficult, never been so elusive,'' she told about 800 people after receiving the Clare Boothe Luce award from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
Thatcher, who was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, was nicknamed the "Iron Lady'' for her forceful brand of conservatism. She led Britain out of economic misery and became then-President Reagan's greatest Cold War ally.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Heritage President Edwin Feulner presented the award at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center.
Cheney said besides having a "bulldog-like British tenacity,'' Thatcher has held a "passionate love of freedom,'' and "always been true to the end.''
Heritage's Board of Trustees established the Clare Boothe Luce Award in 1991 to honor those who exemplify conservative ideals. Luce was a Heritage trustee, congresswoman, ambassador, playwright, presidential adviser and editor. She died in 1987.
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