Republican (socialist/fascist) de facto President George W. Bush (having received an unlawful advantage of 52 ineligible Electoral votes) delivers his war message against Iraq to the 57th United Nations General Assembly:
As we meet today, it’s been almost 4 years since the last U.N. inspectors set foot in Iraq, 4 years for the Iraqi regime to plan and to build and to test behind the cloak of secrecy.
We know that Saddam Hussein pursued weapons of mass murder even when inspectors were in his country. … To suggest otherwise is to hope against the evidence. To assume this regime’s good faith is to bet the lives of millions and the peace of the world in a reckless gamble. And this is a risk we must not take.
… The first time we may be completely certain he has a— nuclear weapons is when, God forbids, he uses one…
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… Saddam Hussein. … once ordered the killing of every person between the ages of 15 and 70 in certain Kurdish villages in northern Iraq. He has gassed many Iranians and 40 Iraqi villages.
NOTE: None of Bush’s claims were true.
[restored 11/1/2025]
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References:
Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, (New York: Metropolitan, 2004), 73.
Address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City | The American Presidency Project
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-united-nations-general-assembly-new-york-city-1
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