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Bush Issues New Threat to Iran, Iraq, N.Korea

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Reuters) -

President Bush issued a new warning to Iraq, Iran and North Korea on Monday, saying the United States had a mission to stop nations developing weapons of mass destruction from teaming up with terrorists.

"This president is not going to allow regimes such as Iran, Iraq and North Korea to threaten our way of life," Bush said in a fund-raising speech in Milwaukee for Wisconsin Gov. Scott McCallum.

Bush, who earlier this month described the three countries as the "axis of evil", said threats to America did not emanate only from "the terrorist organizations that hate freedom and kill in the name of religion".

"Our mission also includes countries which develop weapons of mass destruction -- nations with a history of brutality. If they are ever able to mate up with terrorist organizations the free world will be threatened."

In an earlier speech at the Medical College of Wisconsin, he said the United States had to "seize the moment".

Bush Issues New Threat to Iran, Iraq, N.Korea

[D2]

"sieze the moment" was the position of the Walter Mathau character in "Failsafe"

[eno_]

Do you suppose the harsh "axid of evil" language is to get these yahoos to back off supporting such an operation? I get the feeling the stakes are very high.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

"Our mission also includes countries which develop weapons of mass destruction...

Does that mean we get to bomb ourselves?!?