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Bush Calls on United Nations to Disarm Saddam Hussein
Tuesday, October 1, 2002
By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service

“There needs to be a strong new resolution in order for us to make it clear to the world -- and to Saddam Hussein, more importantly -- that you must disarm. And I look forward to looking at all their proposals. Just like we're dealing with everybody concerned, we will listen to points of view. But the final bottom line has got to be a very strong resolution, so that we don't fall into the same trap we have done for the last 11 years, which is nothing happens. Saddam Hussein has thumbed his nose at the world. He's a threat to the neighborhood. He's a threat to Israel. He's a threat to the United States of America. And we're just going to have to deal with him. And the best way to deal with him is for the world to rise up and say, you disarm, and we'll disarm you. And if not -- if, at the very end of the day, nothing happens -- the United States, along with others, will act.”

WASHINGTON -- AFIS
"I haven't made up my mind we're going to war with Iraq," U.S. President George W. Bush said Tuesday. "I've made up my mind we need to disarm the man."

Saddam Hussein is a true threat to his neighbors and to the United States, the president said following a White House meeting with members of Congress. The United States is determined to disarm Iraq and thereby bring peace to the world, he said.

"The best way to deal with him is for the world to rise up and say, 'You disarm, (or) we'll disarm you.' And if, at the very end of the day, nothing happens, the United States, along with others, will act.”

Bush acknowledged that Congress is working to reach consensus on a resolution to deal with Iraq. He said he doesn't want a resolution that will tie his hands or one that's weaker than the "very strong" resolution Congress passed in 1998.
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