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Wednesday 13 February 2002
telegraph.co.uk
Thatcher urges Bush to 'finish business of Iraq'
By Toby Harnden in Washington
(Filed: 12/02/2002)
LADY Thatcher praised President Bush's leadership yesterday and
called for the war on terrorism to focus on the "unfinished business"
of Iraq.
The former Prime Minister used an article in the New York Times to
back vigorously the policy outlined in Mr Bush's State of the Union
speech.
Describing Saddam Hussein as "the most notorious rogue", Lady
Thatcher said: "How and when, not whether, to remove him are the only
important questions." She urged Britain to "extend strong support" to
Mr Bush.
Lady Thatcher compared the threat of Muslim fundamentalism to that of communism.
"Islamic extremism today, like Bolshevism in the past, is an armed doctrine.
"It is an aggressive ideology promoted by fanatical, well-armed devotees. And, like
communism, it requires an all-embracing long-term strategy to defeat it."
She identified the second phase of the war against terrorism as involving strikes
against centres of Islamic terror groups in Africa and South-East Asia, presumably
references to Somalia and the Philippines.
A third phase, she argued, should deal with Mr Bush's "axis of evil" - Iran, Iraq and
North Korea - and other states.
These included Syria, which she described as an enemy of Western values; Libya, which
"still hates the West", and Sudan, which "undertakes genocide against its own citizens
in the name of Islam".
Lady Thatcher was critical of Western policy on global terrorist networks. "We have
harboured those who hated us, tolerated those who threatened us and indulged those who
weakened us."
She used the words of the poet Milton to describe America after September 11 as like
"a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep".
America should resist being drawn into peacekeeping and "nation-building" efforts
because "it is best that the United States, as the only global military superpower,
deploy its energies militarily rather than on social wo
rk".
Lady Thatcher, who had a close friendship with Ronald Reagan but
relatively cool relations with George Bush Snr, indicated that the
present president had won her esteem in a way that his father failed
to do.
The West needed to strengthen its resolve, she concluded. "The good
news is that America has a president who can offer the leadership
necessary to do so."
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