Posted on 05/24/2004 3:40:03 PM PDT by Howlin
Here's a good link.
I prefer cats actually.
A new Iraq will also need a humane, well-supervised prison system. Under the dictator, prisons like Abu Ghraib were symbols of death and torture. That same prison became a symbol of disgraceful conduct by a few American troops who dishonored our country and disregarded our values.America will fund the construction of a modern maximum security prison.
When that prison is completed, detainees at Abu Ghraib will be relocated. Then with the approval of the Iraqi government, we will demolish the Abu Ghraib Prison as a fitting symbol of Iraq's new beginning.
The fourth step in our plan is to enlist additional international support for Iraq's transition.
At every stage, the United States has gone to the United Nations to confront Saddam Hussein, to promise serious consequences for his actions and to begin Iraqi reconstruction.
Today the United States and Great Britain presented a new resolution in the Security Council to help move Iraq toward self-government.
I directed Secretary Powell to work with fellow members of the council to endorse the timetable the Iraqis have adopted, to express international support for Iraq's interim government, to reaffirm the world's security commitment to the Iraqi people and to encourage other U.N. members to join in the effort.
Despite past disagreements, most nations have indicated strong support for the success of a free Iraq, and I am confident they will share in the responsibility of assuring that success.
Next month at the NATO summit in Istanbul, I will thank our 15 NATO allies who together have more than 17,000 troops on the ground in Iraq.
Great Britain and Poland are each leading a multinational division that is securing important parts of the country. And NATO itself is giving helpful intelligence and communications and logistical support to the Polish-led division.
At the summit, we will discuss NATO's role in helping Iraq build and secure its democracy.
The fifth, and most important step is free national elections, to be held no later than next January.
A United Nations team headed by Carina Perelli is now in Iraq helping form an independent election commission that will oversee an orderly accurate national election. In that election, the Iraqi people will choose a transitional national assembly, the first freely elected, truly representative national governing body in Iraq's history.
This assembly will serve as Iraq's legislature and it will choose a transitional government with executive powers. The transitional national assembly will also draft a new constitution, which will be presented to the Iraqi people in a referendum scheduled for the fall of 2005.
Under this new constitution, Iraq will elect a permanent government by the end of next year.
In this time of war and liberation and rebuilding, American soldiers and civilians on the ground have come to know and respect the citizens of Iraq. They're a proud people who hold strong and diverse opinions.
Yet Iraqis are united in a broad and deep conviction. They're determined never again to live at the mercy of a dictator.
And they believe that a national election will put that dark time behind them.
A representative government that protects basic rights, elected by Iraqis, is the best defense against the return of tyranny. And that election is coming.
Completing the five steps to Iraqi elected self-government will not be easy. There's likely to be more violence before the transfer of sovereignty and after the transfer of sovereignty. The terrorists and Saddam loyalists would rather see many Iraqis die than have any live in freedom.
But terrorists will not determine the future of Iraq.
That nation is moving every week toward free elections and a permanent place among free nations. Like every nation that has made the journey to democracy, Iraqis will raise up a government that reflects their own culture and values.
I sent American troops to Iraq to defend our security, not to stay as an occupying power. I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American.
Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
As they do, Iraqis can be certain a free Iraq will always have a friend in the United States of America.
In the last 32 months, history has placed great demands on our country and events have come quickly.
Americans have seen the flames of September 11th, followed battles in the mountains of Afghanistan and learned new terms like orange alert and ricin and dirty bomb.
We've seen killers at work on trains in Madrid, in a bank in Istanbul, in a synagogue in Tunis and at a nightclub in Bali. And now the families of our soldiers and civilian workers pray for their sons and daughters in Mosul, in Karbala, in Baghdad.
We did not seek this war on terror, but this is the world as we find it. We must keep our focus. We must do our duty.
History is moving and it will tend toward hope or tend toward tragedy.
Our terrorist enemies have a vision that guides and explains all their varied acts of murder. They seek to impose Taliban-like rule country by country across the greater Middle East.
They seek the total control of every person in mind and soul; a harsh society in which women are voiceless and brutalized. They seek bases of operation to train more killers and export more violence. They commit dramatic acts of murder to shock, frighten and demoralize civilized nations, hoping we will retreat from the world and give them free rein.
They seek weapons of mass destruction to impose their will through blackmail and catastrophic attacks.
None of this is the expression of a religion. It is a totalitarian, political ideology pursued with consuming zeal and without conscious.
Our actions, too, are guided by a vision.
We believe that freedom can advance and change lives in the greater Middle East as it has advanced and changed lives in Asia, in Latin America, in Eastern Europe and Africa. We believe it is a tragedy of history that in the Middle East, which gave the world great gifts of law and science and faith, so many have been held back by lawless tyranny and fanaticism.
We believe that when all Middle Eastern peoples are finally allowed to live and think and work and worship as free men and women, they will reclaim the greatness of their own heritage. And when that day comes, the bitterness and burning hatreds that feed terrorism will fade and die away.
America and all the world will be safer when hope has returned to the Middle East. These two visions - one of tyranny and murder, the other of liberty and life - clashed in Afghanistan. And thanks to brave U.S. and coalition forces and to Afghan patriots, the nightmare of the Taliban is over and that nation is coming to life again.
These two visions have now met in Iraq and are contending for the future of that country.
The failure of freedom would only mark the beginning of peril and violence. But, my fellow Americans, we will not fail. We will persevere and defeat this enemy and hold this hard-won ground for the realm of liberty.
May God bless our country.
Always and since we're Catholic we light those magic candles while we're doing it. :-}
I do know that the gist of it is that he has not supported our President, on what issue, I don't know.
I want to know because he is my Senator and I am going to contact this quiet, arrogant, finely coiffed, classically tailored, senator's clubber of clubbiness smoozer s office and demand to know WHY HE IS NOT OUT THERE SUPPORTING OUR WAR ON TERRORISM AND HELPING TO KEEP THE RESOLVE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PRIMED AND FOCUSED.
Lugar and Bayh are just 'nothing' to me. Nothing. I am ashamed of both of them.
I don't know what you would consider "newsworthy". It was an executive summary and timeline for the next year and a half. The only "newsworthy" part I guess is that the names of the interim government will be submitted some time this week along with the probable adoption of a UN resolution to formally recognize the interim government.
Ooops- sorry about that- that's what I get gor not paying attention.
I'm deeply curious about a person who thinks the truth (which is being hidden from the American people by a leftist media) but now is being clearly stated by the leader of the free world, is 'pedestrian.'
True- his accuracy ratings as near as I can tell are in the gutter.
Peach, I tried a search for the article using the title shown on Drudge, but with no luck.
Do you have a link?
Bump!! God bless your summary and your caring!!
Isn't time the FCC breaks-up the Networks.
According to a story in New Jersey Online, Clancy, 52 at the time, married Alexandra Marie Llewellyn, 32, on June 26, 1999. This wedding was also reported in MSN Entertainment here. It was previously reported in the Washington Post that he was to marry a niece of Colin Powell just after the divorce to his first wife was finalized.
According to the Times, the warring Clancys, separated since 1996 (when Marcy learned Tom was having an affair with a younger woman who went by the Internet names "Bin Bin" and "Ping Ping"), have managed to work out several key matters in their split, including custody of the kids and the family Sherman tank.
In 1969, Clancy married a woman named Wanda Thomas, who was an eye surgeon and an insurance agency manager (Speace 98). They had four children, Michelle, Christine, Tom, and Kathleen, and a dog named Freddie (Cohen 115). They lived on 400 wooded acres in Maryland, along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Standing on the front lawn is a tank, given to him as a gift by his wife at the time (Schindehette 114). On the property there are also two tennis courts, two basketball courts, a full length football field and a shooting range (Greenberg 132). In one interview, Clancy was asked if he ever thought of changing houses. Clancy answered, Why should I change? I'm not going to make more money anywhere else (Zaleski 4). In the past 5 years, Clancy had some difficulty in his personal life. In 1995, Wanda Thomas filed for divorce. She had found out that Clancy had been having an affair with a woman named Katherine Huang. The tank that stood on their lawn was then seen as a metaphor for their years of marriage (Schindette 1). I thought our marriage was as fine as most people's, said Wanda, I will always love him in a certain way as the father of my children (Schindette 2). After the divorce, Clancy wanted to marry a lady named Alexandra Llewellyn, a 31 year old former televison reporter. He had been introduced to Llewellyn by one of her relatives, retired Gen. Colin Powell. The two got married on Saturday June 26, 1999, and are now living happily together in Clancy's estate on the Chesapeake Bay. Wanda Thomas received custody of the children, while Clancy pays $6,500 a month is child support
It pains me to say it.....but I wasn't impressed or inspired:-(
I think the statement about the prison story shocked me because he has been rather fair to Bush.
freepmail
I didn't read the text since I had just listened to it. If you go back through the thread you will see comments on the prison. Maybe an error in transcription, I guess.
" (And, Joe Biden's remarks did not sway that voter back the other way.)"
I rather liked the way Duncan Hunter almost-successfully painted Biden as a "chicken-little" in his rebuttal following Biden. If memory serves me, I beleive he called him Joe "Everythings going to heck in a handbasket" Biden.
NOW why can't the rest of the GOP grow a set and shout it from the rooftops??????
(I'm on my second glass of wine now - needed it tonight!)
I've switched to the 2nd half of the basketball game, but, I did watch Woodward tonight on King's CNN yack show for the first 40 minutes and Woodward failed in offering a single remarkable utterance.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.