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Saturday, January 25, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:37 PM:
Powell States U.S. CaseAt World Economic Forum in Switzerland, secretary of state tells global community 'not to step back from the solemn responsibility to disarm Iraq'
DAVOS, Switzerland — Secretary of State Colin Powell said Saturday that the world must use force if necessary to disarm Iraq, and warned "the going is getting tough."That's the core of this whole thing: Iraq was given a chance to come clean, a chance to indicate that it preferred moving toward respectability among the family of nations to holding on to illicit weapons. It has chosen to instead give every indication it intends to continue as a rogue nation. Which makes the craven appeasement of some in Western Europe look like they've forgotten the Sudetenland compromise of the last century. It's almost as if they want Iraq to rise again.
"The burden is upon Iraq. It must comply, or it will be made to comply with military force," declared Powell upon arriving at the World Economic Forum, where 2,300 world political and business leaders have gathered for an annual meeting....
He reiterated that Iraq's 12,000-page weapons declaration does not account for biological and chemical agents, chemical shells and nuclear documents — each of which "has the potential to kill thousands upon thousands of innocent human beings."
Of course it is interesting that the Western European nation most sensitive to Iraq's feelings about being disarmed is... Germany.
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