Quit Baghdad or war this week, Bush tells Saddam

The Sunday Times ^ | March 16, 2003 | Tony Allen-Mills and Jonathan Carr-Brown

[SierraWasp]

Hey Ivan! When do we start the wake for Saddumb?

[winner3000]

Other losers: the small countries that were promised stuff for their votes. Since apparently enough of them decided to screw us, none of them will collect. Don't pass Go, don't collect $. No soup for you!

[Jim Noble]

>>"He doesn't feel he can support military action without the clear, unambiguous support of the UN," said one. <<

I didn't know there was anyone this stupid.

[knak]

My money is that the 3-days notice to aid workers, human shields, and inspectors might be a part of tomorrow's remarks.

I'm with you on that one. I don't think we even want the UN to meet at all on this anymore.

[Robert_Paulson2]

We may be experiencing a bio attack as we speak, of an undefined, incurable pneumoniac plague... the positioning of key control and command of the three nations in charge, makes perfect sense to me.

[JoeSchem]

If Saddam indeed has weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaeda, the aftermath of this all-too-brief war is going to look very, very bad for the Democrats, the French, and the UN.

[smith288]

The government will announce that Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, has advised that war without a second UN resolution would be legal.

So, like, do we get 17 or 18 resolutions and 12 yrs before we take our own regime out???

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

"Things are afoot. Us folks in the international side are seeing things develop before they hit the domestic papers."

I believe you.

[Victoria Delsoul]

While telephone diplomacy will continue in a last effort to get the support of a majority of the United Nations Security Council, the two leaders have agreed there is virtually no chance of winning a vote on a resolution to authorise the use of force. They have therefore determined to enforce "regime change" in Baghdad without a second resolution.

That's right. One resolution is good enough! I definitely admire GW for his determination to do the right thing.

[WaterDragon]

Thanks for the ping, M&M. I don't want Saddam to go into exile. He needs killing, to rid the earth of his evil completely.

[vannrox]

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This is the plan as I see it...
Bush has the following plan: He intends to Kill Saddam using a very sly technique. So outrageous and simple that we have never fought a war in this way ever before.

His plan is to kill Saddam by either Heart attack or old age. What I mean is that he is going to kill him by "old age", because Saddma is just waiting and waiting for the US to get it's act going.How many months has it been since we announced that Iraq had better meet it's UN sansions? 14 months? Yessur. Either Saddam will die of stomach ulcers and migranes because of the endless wavering and diddling that the US is doing with the UN, or...

Bush is going to keep the plans going back and forth in committee until Saddam dies of old age...maybe 90 years old. So in 2035, the USA can declare a victory over the entire Iraq mess.

There is also the chance that he intends to drive him crazy. All the endless speculation of war vrs. no-war is going to make Americans crazy! Can you imagine what it would do to Saddam?


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[McGavin999]

I don't really care what Mexico or Cameroon thinks. Their cards aren't important anywhere outside of the Security Council.

The Limp Six already laid their cards on the table when they couldn't make up their minds. That told us all we needed to know about them.

[Dog Gone]

But who cared anyway? Third world nations shouldn't have to make first world decisions. Their domestic problems are far more than they can handle.

[MeekOneGOP]

Amen !

[MeekOneGOP]

You bet. Yep. He's Bad bad bad !!! . . .

CRUSH Saddam !!

[MeekOneGOP]

I think we all know that there is NO WAY the Megalomaniac Saddam will accept any type of agreement to walk away. Bush, Blair, Anzar all know that . . .

[rundy]

France: You lose.
Germany: You lose.
Russia: You lose.

You are all losers. NO French oil companies in liberated Iraq. NO Russian oil companies in liberated Iraq. NO repayment of Saddam's debt to Russian.

Vlad Putin isn't that smart after all. He has chosen the losing side. Loser.

I really supsect that when our forces actually go in and clean up IRAQ they will find all sorts of evidence that these three (axis of weasels, France, Germany, and Russia) have been providing Iraq materials for weapons and other things restricted or forbidden by UN Resoultions. They want to be sure no one finds the evidence.

Sorry weasels, you are about to be exposed!

[Balata]

I think there's an outside chance Saddam will end up in Iran. He has a lot of money to bargin with and Iran may now have nuclear capabilities. If he goes anywhere else we'll get him, but Iran perhaps a different story. There were also recent reports Saddam was putting a large chunk of his money into diamonds, a more universal currency.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads ups!

[WOSG]

Meeting makes a lot of sense, think about Yalta, Teheran, in the WWII. It's a way to clarify what we need to do now that UN diplomacy has failed, it a way to clarify what the 'coalition of the willing' wants, and make the war goals clear and unified.

I am very encouraged by the noises from UK that MadIvan is posting. In particular the 'war by wednesday'. it tells me that the 'coalition of the willing'has made the STRATEGIC DECISION TO DISARM IRAQ BY FORCE.