War 'making world safer' (Guardian report on SOTU)

[papau]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1127636,00.html

War 'making world safer'

Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday January 21, 2004
The Guardian

President George Bush last night declared the US to be on a mission to "lead the cause of freedom" and claimed his doctrine of pre-emptive military action had advanced the cause of democracy and non-proliferation around the world.

In a defiantly worded state of the union address to Congress, the president significantly scaled down his claims over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction but was unapologetic over the country's invasion, arguing Saddam Hussein's removal had made the world "a better and safer place".

"Because of American leadership and resolve, the world is changing for the better," the president declared to the joint session of Congress. He said the resolve shown in the Iraqi campaign had persuaded Libya to renounce weapons of mass destruction.

"For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible and no one can now doubt the word of America," Mr Bush said.

<snip>Last night, he did not repeat the claims he made last year that Iraq had stockpiles of banned weapons. Instead, using carefully chosen words, he said "weapons of mass destruction-related program activities" had been found in Iraq. "Had we failed to act" he said, those programmes would have continued. Nor was there mention of alleged links the Saddam regime and al-Qaida. <snip>

[SpiralHawk]

1. Beer Making World More Sober

New scientific reports show that bullshit often floats -- if the people are asleep at the wheel and the metaphor is mutated beyond comprehension.

We have always been at war with terrorism. Evil is bad. Evil doers are at large. Keep an eye on them

[baldguy]

2. Sounds familier.

Remember "We had to burn the village in order to save it"?

But, Iraq is NOTHING like Vietnam.