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Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] Bush Sr warning over unilateral action
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Is this the way out for Jr.
jim adams
March 10, 2003
Bush Sr warning over unilateral action
>From Roland Watson in Washington
THE first President Bush has told his son that hopes of peace in the Middle East would
be
ruined if a war with Iraq were not backed by international unity.
Drawing on his own experiences before and after the 1991 Gulf War, Mr Bush Sr said that
the brief flowering of hope for Arab-Israeli relations a decade ago would never have
happened if America had ignored the will of the United Nations.
He also urged the President to resist his tendency to bear grudges, advising his son to
bridge the rift between the United States, France and Germany.
�You�ve got to reach out to the other person. You�ve got to convince them that
long-term
friendship should trump short-term adversity,� he said.
The former President�s comments reflect unease among the Bush family and its entourage
at
the way that George W. Bush is ignoring international opinion and overriding the
institutions that his father sought to uphold. Mr Bush Sr is a former US Ambassador to
the UN and comes from a family steeped in multi-lateralist traditions.
Although not addressed to his son in person, the message, in a speech at Tufts
University
in Massachusetts, was unmistakeable. Mr Bush Sr even came close to conceding that
opponents of his son�s case against President Saddam Hussein, who he himself is on
record
as loathing, have legitimate cause for concern.
He said that the key question of how many weapons of mass destruction Iraq held �could
be
debated�. The case against Saddam was �less clear� than in 1991, when Mr Bush Sr led an
international coalition to expel invading Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Objectives were �a
little fuzzier today�, he added.
After the Gulf War, Mr Bush Sr steered Israel and its Arab neighbours to the Madrid
conference, a stepping stone to the historic Israeli-Palestinian Oslo accords, in much
the same way that the present President has talked about the removal of Saddam as
opening
the way to a wider peace in the region.
In an ominous warning for his son, Mr Bush Sr said that he would have been able to
achieve nothing if he had jeopardised future relations by ignoring the UN. �The Madrid
conference would never have happened if the international coalition that fought
together
in Desert Storm had exceeded the UN mandate and gone on its own into Baghdad after
Saddam
and his forces.�
Also drawing on the lessons of 1991, he said that it was imperative to mend fences with
allies immediately, rather than waiting until after a war. He had been infuriated with
the decision of King Hussein of Jordan to side with Saddam rather than the US, but
while
criticising the Jordanian leader in public and freezing $41 million in US aid, he also
passed word to King Hussein that he understood his domestic tensions.
Mr Bush Jr, who is said never to forget even relatively minor slights, has alarmed
analysts with the way in which he has allowed senior Administration figures such as
Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, aggressively to criticise France and Germany.
There are, however, signs that Mr Bush Sr�s message may be getting through.
Father and son talk regularly and it was, in part, pressure from Mr Bush Sr�s foreign
policy coterie, that helped to persuade the President to go to the UN last September.
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