Bush: "We foresee occupying those wells very quickly'

[Botany]

We have a madman in the White House. Ready to go to war no matter what .....
Saddam was willing to leave Iraq and bush refused to listen to the U.N.

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http://www.juancole.com/2007/09/bush-aznar-transcript-war-crime-of.html

Bush-Aznar Transcript: The War Crime of the Century Juan Cole

I made two claims about the transcript published by El Pais of Bush's conversations with Spanish leader Jose Maria
Aznar on 22 February, 2003, at Crawford, Texas.

The first is that the transcript shows that Bush intended to disregard a negative outcome in his quest for a UN
Security Council resolution authorizing a war against Iraq. Bush wanted such a resolution. He expressed a willingness
to use threats and economic coercion to secure it. But he makes it perfectly clear that he will not wait for the UNSC
to act beyond mid-March. He also explicitly says that if any of the permanent members of the UNSC uses its veto,
"we will go." That is, failure to secure the resolution would trigger the war.

Uh, that is the opposite of the way it is supposed to work. If you can't get a UNSC resolution, and you haven't
been attacked by the state against whom you want to go to war, then you are supposed to stand down.

Both because he set a deadline beyond which his "patience" would not stretch (the poor thing had already waited
four months; I mean, is he a toddler that he lacks elementary patience?), and because he specified a UNSC veto
as a signal for his launching of the war, Bush made it very clear that he was willing to trash the charter of the
United Nations and to take the world back to the 1930s,to an era of mass politics when powerful states launched
wars of choice at will on the basis of fevered rhetoric and fits of pique.

[babylonsister]

1. I wonder if the State Dept. is pushing back on the madman, or just

appeasing us?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1928499&mesg_id=1928499

[PDJane]

2. I wish I could say that this is a surprise.......

The only surprise left to me is that the signposts of totalitarianism are being ignored, and the US is sleepwalking to totalitarianism.