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(Live Thread) PRES. BUSH ADDRESSES U.N. [11:30 EDT]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060919-4.html ^ | September 19, 2006 | self

Posted on 09/19/2006 6:27:02 AM PDT by RobFromGa

President Bush is expected to address the situation in the Middle East, Iraq, and Iran's nuclear ambitions...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bahrain; bush; darfur; democracy; getusoutofun; gwot; iran; israel; jordan; middleeast; potus; syria; un; w
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To: Miss Marple


LOL -- good advice. I will give it a try the very next time I feel energized. See you later, MM.


701 posted on 09/19/2006 9:53:54 AM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: penelopesire


You too. Keep smiling all day.


702 posted on 09/19/2006 9:54:28 AM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: KsSunflower

I just heard that. If these Rats want to frame an issue then maybe they should first learn the issues. No one has endorsed "torture" into legislation, it's just that the President wants a definition of what torture is or isn't absent some subjective interpretation.


703 posted on 09/19/2006 9:54:38 AM PDT by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: Christian4Bush

Flipper's been here in CA trying to save the Rat candidate for governor from near certain defeat.


704 posted on 09/19/2006 9:54:47 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Support Arnold-McClintock or embrace high taxes, gay weddings with Angelides.)
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To: newzjunkey
"Flipper's been here in CA trying to save send the Rat candidate for governor from to near certain defeat."

There...fixed

705 posted on 09/19/2006 10:00:47 AM PDT by Christian4Bush ("Ma'am, you don't have to thank us. You just go beat him for us." Soldier to Irey re: Murtha)
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To: Bahbah; Lucky9teen; SE Mom

Done!


706 posted on 09/19/2006 10:01:36 AM PDT by Howlin (Declassify the Joe Wilson "Report!")
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To: onyx
I'm out of here for a while too. That speech will keep me going for a while.

Have a good one.

707 posted on 09/19/2006 10:04:01 AM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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Bush appeals to Muslims in U.N. speech By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

UNITED NATIONS - President Bush on Tuesday appealed directly to Muslims to assure them that the United States is not waging war with Islam as he laid out a vision for peace in the Middle East before skeptical world leaders at the United Nations.

On the sidelines, Bush pressed Iran to return at once to international talks on its nuclear program and threatened consequences if they do not.

But his speech to the United Nations General Assembly was less confrontational and aimed at building bridges with people in the Middle East angry with the United States.

"My country desires peace," Bush told world leaders in the cavernous main hall at the U.N. "Extremists in your midst spread propaganda claiming that the West is engaged in a war against Islam. This propaganda is false and its purpose is to confuse you and justify acts of terror. We respect Islam."

Addressing Iraqis specifically, Bush said, "We will not abandon you in your struggle to build a free nation."

Bush said Iran "must abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions." Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was scheduled to speak to the body later Tuesday, but he was not at the country's table in the hall when Bush spoke.

Speaking to Iranians, Bush said their country's future has been clouded because "your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and to use your nation's resources to fund terrorism and fuel extremism and pursue nuclear weapons."

On the crisis in Sudan's violence-wracked region of Darfur, Bush delivered strong warnings to both the United Nations and the Sudanese government, saying that both must act now to avert further humanitarian crisis.

Bush said that if the Sudanese government does not withdraw its rejection of a U.N. peacekeeping force for Darfur, the world body should act over the government's objections. The U.N. Security Council last month passed a resolution that would give the U.N. control over the peacekeeping mission in Darfur, now run mostly ineffectively by the African Union. But Sudan has refused to give its consent.

"The regime in Khartoum is stopping the deployment of this force," Bush said. "If the Sudanese government does not approve this peacekeeping force quickly, the United Nations must act."

With more than 200,000 people already killed in three years of fighting in Darfur and the violence threatening to increase again, Bush said the "credibility of the United Nations is at stake."

Iran's defiant pursuit of a nuclear program was at the top of the agenda when Bush met earlier with French President Jacques Chirac at the Waldorf Astoria hotel where the U.S. delegation was staying. The French leader is balking at the U.S. drive to sanction Iran for defying Security Council demands that it freeze uranium enrichment.

"Should they continue to stall," Bush said of Iranian leaders, "we will then discuss the consequences of their stalling." The president, speaking after his meeting with Chirac, said those consequences would include the possibility of sanctions.

Chirac proposed on Monday that the international community compromise by suspending the threat of sanctions if Tehran agrees to halt its uranium enrichment program and return to negotiations. The U.S. and other countries fear Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons, while Tehran insists its uranium enrichment program is to make fuel for nuclear power plants.

Bush said that Iran must first suspend uranium enrichment "in which case the U.S. will come to the table."

But he also stressed that he and Chirac "share the same objective and we're going to continue to strategize together."

"Time is of the essence," the president said. "Now is the time for the Iranians to come to the table."

Both Bush and Chirac stressed they are working together, and the French president said twice that they see "eye to eye."

Chirac also said the European Union would not negotiate with Iran until it suspends uranium enrichment. "We cannot have negotiations if we do not have on one hand prior suspension," Chirac said.

Bush's challenge is to build international support to confront multiple problems in the region: the Iran issue, a stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, armed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and unabated violence in Iraq.

Bush planned to meet later Tuesday with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

Bush's speech was the last in a series on the war on terror, timed to surround last week's fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and to set the tone for the final weeks of the U.S. midterm elections.

Bush was speaking in the same room where four years and one week ago he made another plea for action in the Middle East. On that day, Bush said Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of deadly chemical and biological agents that the United Nations must confront.

He was wrong, but still forged ahead with war against Iraq without the support of many other nations. And he is still trying to rebuild credibility with the body, experts say.

"The sense outside of the U.S. is that the United States is responsible for many of the failures in Iraq, first by going in mostly alone and then by incompetent administration," said Jon Alterman, a Mideast expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

"The problem with the way he's talked about democracy in the Middle East is not that people see it as undesirable," Alterman said, "it's that people see it as naive. He needs to persuade cynical people that not only is he sincere, but it's achievable, and here's what they need to do to make it so."

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On the Net:

http://www.whitehouse.gov

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush



Bush accuses Iran of backing terror, nuclear arms

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Tuesday in a message to the Iranian people that the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is using their resources to fund terrorists and pursue nuclear weapons.

In his annual address to the U.N. General Assembly, Bush directed a portion of his remarks to Iranians, saying "you deserve an opportunity to determine your own future" and an economy that rewards their talents.

"The greatest obstacle to this future is that your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and to use your nation's resources to fund terrorism and fuel extremism and pursue nuclear weapons," Bush said.

Bush has long sought to show his support for Iranians against a Tehran government that Washington sees as a major supporter of terrorism.

With the United States and Europeans pressuring Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, Bush told Iranians that "despite what the regime tells you, we have no objection to Iran's pursuit of a truly peaceful nuclear power program."

"We're working toward a diplomatic solution to this crisis. And as we do, we look to the day when you can live in freedom, and America and Iran can be good friends and close partners in the cause of peace," Bush said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060919/ts_nm/un_bush_iran_dc_1


708 posted on 09/19/2006 10:05:59 AM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: ShandaLear

"Really great speech right out of the Reagan handbook."

Yes. If Bush could only approach RR's articulation and enunciation, we'd REALLY have a winner!


709 posted on 09/19/2006 10:06:17 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: King David

haven't found a transcript yet...


710 posted on 09/19/2006 10:06:42 AM PDT by RobFromGa
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To: onyx

Thailand?


711 posted on 09/19/2006 10:08:54 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Howlin

Has the transcript of President Bush's speech been posted yet?


712 posted on 09/19/2006 10:09:17 AM PDT by malia ("How do you get a ceasefire with terrorists"? John Bolton)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

We got what we got because we wanted that. Eight years of nonstop eloquence with no substance was eight years too much. A powerful speaker will attract attention, but eventually we will have to listen to what is said rather than how it is said.


713 posted on 09/19/2006 10:09:26 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: RobFromGa; malia
Transcript President Bush Addresses U.N. General Assembly
714 posted on 09/19/2006 10:13:42 AM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Lucky9teen

Thanks for the schedule of speakers. This will be very helpful as to when each country will be speaking!


715 posted on 09/19/2006 10:15:34 AM PDT by acoulterfan
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To: RobFromGa

Direct, strong speech that minced no words but made efforts not to offend except the miscreant nations.

MSM will hate this speech.


716 posted on 09/19/2006 10:15:35 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: malia

I just got in, so I don't know.

Why is David Frum saying that this is the end of Bush's Iran policy?


717 posted on 09/19/2006 10:18:21 AM PDT by Howlin (Declassify the Joe Wilson "Report!")
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To: RobFromGa

Great speech...he said what needed saying and used it as a bully-pulpit. Went right over the UN "ambassadors" and the leaders of those nations heads and spoke to the people. His very speech rendered the UN impotent...and diplayed their lack of credibility.


718 posted on 09/19/2006 10:18:23 AM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: acoulterfan

C-SPAN 2 is showing the rest of the speeches.


719 posted on 09/19/2006 10:19:21 AM PDT by acoulterfan
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To: acoulterfan

Chirac is up after Pakistan.


720 posted on 09/19/2006 10:22:17 AM PDT by acoulterfan
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