I have never seen the phrase "calming predicate" before....I wonder how reassured allies will be in being assured that they will be included and play their part in US-led coalition against terrrorism.
Cheers, Ken Mr. Bush's remarks, delivered on a brilliant but cold morning with the Washington diplomatic corps in attendance and the flags of 179 nations behind him, seemed an attempt to reassure nations unsettled by the unilateralist tone of his State of the Union Address on Jan. 29. Today the president reached out to the same allies he had not even mentioned in the earlier speech, praising them as a "mighty coalition of civilized nations" in what appeared to be a calming predicate for action against Iraq.
