Rumors and innenuendos are creeping out from the shadows that the U.N. may no longer be "relevant."
Posted on 03/08/2003 3:37:16 PM PST by Happy2BMe
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Fri Mar 7, 4:56 AM ET
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By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Excerpts from President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s prime-time news conference Thursday evening. __
"These are not the actions of a regime that is disarming. These are the actions of a regime engaged in a willful charade. These are the actions of a regime that systematically and deliberately is defying the world."
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"Inspection teams do not need more time or more personnel. All they need is what they have never received — the full cooperation of the Iraqi regime."
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"The risk of doing nothing, the risk of hoping that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) changes his mind and becomes a gentle soul, the risk that somehow inaction will make the world safer, is a risk I'm not willing to take for the American people."
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"I'm convinced that a liberated Iraq (news - web sites) will be important for that troubled part of the world. The Iraqi people are plenty capable of governing themselves. Iraq's a sophisticated society. Iraq's got money. Iraq will provide a place where people can see that the Shia and the Sunni and the Kurds can get along in a federation. Iraq will serve as a catalyst for change — positive change."
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"I hope we don't have to go to war. But if we go to war we will disarm Iraq. And if we go to war there will be a regime change. And replacing this cancer inside of Iraq will be a government that represents the rights of all the people, a government which represents the voices of the Shia and the Sunni and the Kurds."
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"No matter what the whip count is, we're calling for the vote. We want to see people stand up and say what their opinion is about Saddam Hussein and the utility of the United Nations (news - web sites) Security Council. ... It's time for people to show their cards, let the world know where they stand when it comes to Saddam."
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"I'm confident the American people understand that when it comes to our security, if we need to act, we will act. And we really don't need United Nations approval to do so."
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"I want to remind you that it is his choice to make as to whether or not we go to war. It's Saddam's choice. He's the person that can make the choice of war and peace. Thus far, he's made the wrong choice."
A classy way to say relevance. I haven't heard anyone pick up on this comment since it was uttered.
From Mirriam Webster:
Main Entry: 1util·i·ty
Pronunciation: yü-'ti-l&-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Etymology: Middle English utilite, from Middle French utilité, from Latin utilitat, utilitas, from utilis useful, from uti to use
Date: 14th century
1 : fitness for some purpose or worth to some end
2 : something useful or designed for use
Rumors and innenuendos are creeping out from the shadows that the U.N. may no longer be "relevant."
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