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More on Pres. Carter’s
remarks that Brian posted earlier.
Notice that Bill Bradley is joining the growing line of former
government officials going on record opposing a Rush to War before conclusive
evidence of an imminent threat is given and authenticated by international
sanction. Notice my parsing of
words. KWC Bradley:
Bush has not made the case @ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13479-2003Feb2.html Carter Says Bush Has 'Not Made a Case' for War
By Dan
Balz, Washington Post Staff Writer, Saturday, February 1, 2003 Former president Jimmy
Carter declared yesterday that President Bush has "not made a case for a
preemptive military strike against Iraq" and urged, instead, permanent
inspections and monitoring to disarm the Iraqi government. In a toughly worded
statement issued as Bush met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Carter
said that even
if Secretary of
State Colin L. Powell presents compelling evidence at the United Nations next week that Iraq possesses weapons
of mass destruction, "this
will not indicate any real or proximate threat by Iraq to the United States or
to our allies." The winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize said the administration bears significant responsibility for the hostility that
has built around the world
toward the United States, and he cited "vituperative attacks on U.S. policy by famous and respected
men" such as former South African president Nelson Mandela and best-selling
author John Le Carré. He called the criticism excessive but said the erosion of international
public opinion was a sobering
reminder
of "how much doubt and consternation has been raised about our motives for
war in the absence of convincing
proof of a genuine threat
from Iraq." Carter said the marshaling of military forces in the Persian Gulf region and the inspection process underway in Iraq virtually guarantee that Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein cannot threaten neighboring countries or the United States with weapons
of mass destruction. "Any belligerent move by Saddam
against a neighbor would be suicidal," he said. "An effort to produce
or deploy chemical or biological weapons or to make the slightest move toward a
nuclear explosion would be inconceivable." Instead, Carter
argued, Hussein is more likely to use such weapons in the event of an invasion,
"when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost,"
than preemptively as an act of terrorism. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8118-2003Jan31.html Outgoing mail scanned by NAV 2002 |
