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Iraq: 'Evil' US seeks to control world By William M. Reilly From the International Desk Published 9/19/2002 9:22 PM View printer-friendly version UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Thursday denied his country had rejected "unjust" U.N. Security Council resolutions for 12 years, but said it was instead "confronting evil" in the form of the U.S. quest to control Middle East oil and the world. Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix later said he expected to have an advance team in Baghdad October 15, as a follow up to Iraq's decision announced earlier in the week to allow the search for weapons of mass destruction to resume "without condition." Said Blix, "We are not giving any discount on Security Council resolutions. Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly, said: "I was instructed by the president ... to convey to you, in the allotted time, excerpts of a letter he addressed to the General Assembly" and devoted about the next 15 minutes to the letter. "By confronting evil for 12 years now, Iraq has not been only defending its own patriotism, but rather it acted as if it were defending your own patriotism," Saddam said in the excerpts read by Sabri, referring to the sanctions regime and the inspections for weapons of mass destruction Baghdad has resisted. "It has been acting on your behalf without being assigned to do so. "In targeting Iraq, the United States administration is acting on behalf of Zionism which has been killing the heroic people of Palestine," Saddam said. "The U.S. administration wants to destroy Iraq in order to control the Middle East oil, and consequently control the politics as well as the oil and economic policies of the whole world. "If it succeeded, God forbid, it would dictate on you what each country needs for its economic development, what quantities of oil it is allowed to buy and at what prices, along with other conditions," the Iraqi president told the assembly's annual debate, through Sabri. Saddam called U.S. President George W. Bush's speech to the world body last Thursday "noisy propaganda" that was a "narrow minded view" of the security problems suffered since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. However, Saddam called it "a good sign that the United States has resorted, for the first time after the end of the Cold War, to the General Assembly to put forward one of its problems, after years of disregard to the weight, effect and opinion of others." He also criticized Bush for delivering a poorly organized speech and having "jumped to the issue of Iraq without any introduction or acceptable progression." He said that when the Bush administration realized Washington should seek the backing of the international community before attacking Iraq and that "the world did not believe the lies it tried to propagate to link Iraq to the September events, it changed the issue and began to shed crocodile tears on international law and the necessity to comply with the resolutions of international legitimacy, saying that Iraq is not complying with Security Council resolutions, especially with regard to U.N. inspectors." On Monday, Sabri sent a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan saying Baghdad would accept the international inspectors back "without condition." However, after a meeting with Annan Wednesday, Sabri said he had asked Annan to ensure the inspectors respect Iraqi sovereignty and security, a theme repeated in the letter excerpts he read to the assembly Thursday. In the past, these have been words Baghdad has used to invoke its right to bar U.N. inspectors entering certain areas, such as "presidential sites," of which there are scores that cover many acres both within and outside the capital city. "We have accepted the return of the inspection teams to Iraq taking into consideration the arrangement that should safeguard these principles, and achieve, with transparency the goal of making sure that Iraq no longer possesses nuclear, biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction," Saddam said. "Along with you, we are waiting to see." Observers at the United Nations were quick to point out he said "no longer possesses" such weapons since he never admitted having nuclear devices. The White House characterized Saddam's message as "more of the same" and "disappointing." Iraq, it said, was still trying to move the United Nations down a "dead end." Blix, executive chairman of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council on his recent talks with Iraqis and his team's readiness to resume inspections. He told reporters afterwards he didn't read too much into the sovereignty and security wording issue since the same words had been included in council resolutions anyway. Blix gave the council a timeline in which he indicated an advance UNMOVIC party could be in Baghdad Oct. 15 and after making all the arrangements, which would be hammered out in meetings in Vienna the week of Sept. 30, actually start work in Iraq in about two-months. In the interim, inspectors would be recruited from an already trained roster, transportation and communications arranged, analysis of back reports from Baghdad -- expected to be handed over in Vienna -- and "rebaselining of selected sites." In the background at U.N. world headquarters, the United States and Britain worked to pull together, as one British official said, "by the end of next week," a draft resolution on the inspectors' return for the Security Council to consider. Even though Russian Foreign Minister Ivan Ivanov earlier in the week said such a measure was not necessary, no opposition was voiced by Moscow in Thursday's council session, diplomatic sources told United Press International. As to What Blix got out of the talks with the Iraqis, one diplomatic source told UPI, "Clearly he needed to have full cooperation and he would explain that very clearly in Vienna. He has already explained it, or told them, but he will explain it more in Vienna -- the degree of cooperation required." Copyright � 2002 United Press International http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/20/1032054963259.html Bush: how I'll rule the world By David Sanger in Washington September 21 2002 The Bush Administration has spelt out its determination to enforce America's global domination, insisting it will allow no other power to challenge its military and economic supremacy. In a 33-page document, published overnight Sydney time, President George Bush says the US will never allow its military might to be challenged the way it was during the Cold War. It says "the President has no intention of allowing any foreign power to catch up with the huge lead the United States has opened since the fall of the Soviet Union more than a decade ago". The document, titled The National Security Strategy of the United States, declares the policies of containment and deterrence - staples since the 1940s - all but dead. There was no way in this changed world to deter those who "hate the United States and everything for which it stands". "America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones." The document delivers Mr Bush's first comprehensive rationale for shifting military strategy towards pre-emptive action against hostile states and terrorist groups developing weapons of mass destruction. He also seeks to answer the critics of growing US muscle-flexing by insisting that it will exploit its military and economic power to encourage "free and open societies" rather than seek "unilateral advantage". The document calls this "a distinctly American internationalism". Mr Bush put the final touches on the strategy last weekend at Camp David, after working on it for months with his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and with other members of the national security team. It is the first wide-ranging explanation of the Administration's foreign policy - from defence strategy to global warming. Much of the document focuses on how public diplomacy, the use of foreign aid, and changes in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank can be used to win what it calls a battle of competing values and ideas - including "a battle for the future of the Muslim world". It describes a commitment to bolster US foreign aid by 50 per cent in the next few years in "countries whose governments rule justly, invest in their people, and encourage economic freedom". A senior White House official said Mr Bush had edited the document heavily "because he thought there were sections where we sounded overbearing or arrogant". But its hawkishness is clear. "Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equalling, the power of the United States." With Russia no longer able to come close to matching US military spending, the doctrine seems aimed at rising powers like China. It cites the non-proliferation agreements that have failed to prevent Iran, North Korea, Iraq and other countries from obtaining weapons of mass destruction. It says the US will never subject its citizens to the new International Criminal Court, "whose jurisdiction does not extend to Americans". The document makes no reference to the Kyoto accord but sets an overall objective of cutting US greenhouse gas emissions "per unit of economic activity by 18 per cent over the next 10 years". The New York Times <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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