--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 6/25/06 10:43:22 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > They were in Iraq, doing their job, right up until Bush > pulled them out so he could invade. They were *furious*. > > For Bush to say Saddam wouldn't let them in is simply a lie. > > I would like to see the exact quote and speech in which Bush > said "Saddam wouldn't let them in". Yes there were times when > Saddam threw them out and wouldn't let them in, but after enough > saber rattling and threats he would change his mind. Also if Bush > said "Saddam wouldn't let them in", while he had to order the > inspectors out before hostilities began, it could have been in the > context that Saddam wouldn't let them in "unfettered".
Press conference, January 27, 2004: Well, I think the Iraq Survey Group must do its work. Again, I appreciate David Kay's contribution. I said in the run-up to the war against Iraq that -- first of all, I hoped the international community would take care of him. I was hoping the United Nations would enforce its resolutions, one of many. And then we went to the United Nations, of course, and got an overwhelming resolution -- 1441 -- unanimous resolution, that said to Saddam, you must disclose and destroy your weapons programs, which obviously meant the world felt he had such programs. He chose defiance. It was his choice to make, and he did not let us in. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040127-3.html Press conference, July 14, 2003 (with Kofi Annan sitting beside him): The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030714-3.html Press conference, March 21, 2006: I also saw a threat in Iraq. I was hoping to solve this problem diplomatically. That's why I went to the Security Council; that's why it was important to pass 1441, which was unanimously passed. And the world said, disarm, disclose, or face serious consequences -- and therefore, we worked with the world, we worked to make sure that Saddam Hussein heard the message of the world. And when he chose to deny inspectors, when he chose not to disclose, then I had the difficult decision to make to remove him. And we did, and the world is safer for it. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060321-4.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
