Bush's Regime Change Speech
The President's speech before the American Enterprise Institute was not about just disarming Iraq. The speech was about briniging democracy to Iraq. Clearly UN Resolution 1441 does not mention that. Bush has signaled that the time for voluntary disarmament by Saddam has passed. If Saddam destroys a few missiles and finds a few old bombs at this point it is too little too late. The clarity of his vision of a post Saddam Iraq has to be contrasted with the continued hell on earth that would exist for the Iraqi people if Chirac and the Euro wimps vision prevailed in even a disarmed Iraq.
What was also made clear is that any hope the Palestinians have for a state rest on Saddam's loss of power. Arafat, who always seems to make bad choices on these matters, is still exchanging love letters with Saddam and is thankful for the blood money paid to families of human bombs. There was a message for him too. To have a Palestinian state, the Palestinians must renounce terrorism against Isreal forever. That pretty much insures that the state will not be created during Arafat's lifetime. With a majority of Palestinians favoring human bomb attacks on Isrealis they do not deserve a state. Without a change in attitude, they will be without a state.
The President's speech before the American Enterprise Institute was not about just disarming Iraq. The speech was about briniging democracy to Iraq. Clearly UN Resolution 1441 does not mention that. Bush has signaled that the time for voluntary disarmament by Saddam has passed. If Saddam destroys a few missiles and finds a few old bombs at this point it is too little too late. The clarity of his vision of a post Saddam Iraq has to be contrasted with the continued hell on earth that would exist for the Iraqi people if Chirac and the Euro wimps vision prevailed in even a disarmed Iraq.
What was also made clear is that any hope the Palestinians have for a state rest on Saddam's loss of power. Arafat, who always seems to make bad choices on these matters, is still exchanging love letters with Saddam and is thankful for the blood money paid to families of human bombs. There was a message for him too. To have a Palestinian state, the Palestinians must renounce terrorism against Isreal forever. That pretty much insures that the state will not be created during Arafat's lifetime. With a majority of Palestinians favoring human bomb attacks on Isrealis they do not deserve a state. Without a change in attitude, they will be without a state.
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