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BUSH: 'The Man Must Disarm'
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service

For more than a decade, Saddam Hussein has deceived and defied the will and resolutions of the United Nations Security Council by, among other things: continuing to seek and develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and prohibited long-range missiles; brutalizing the Iraqi people, including committing gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity; supporting international terrorism; refusing to release or account for prisoners of war and other missing individuals from the Gulf War era; refusing to return stolen Kuwaiti property; and working to circumvent the UN's economic sanctions.

WASHINGTON -- AFIS
Zero tolerance is America's current policy toward Iraq, President Bush declared this morning.

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein must comply with U.N. resolutions or the United States will lead a coalition to disarm him, Bush said during a visit to the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department Operations Center.

"We're through negotiations," he said. "There's no more time. The man must disarm. ... This kind of deception and delay, all that's over with. The country is committed to making the world more peaceful by disarming Saddam Hussein. It's just as simple as that. There's a zero tolerance policy now."

For the past 11 years, Saddam has tried to deceive the world, Bush noted, "and we're through with it."

The president discounted the Iraqi parliament's rejection of the U.N. resolution passed Nov. 8 calling for disarmament.

"The Iraqi parliament is nothing but a rubber stamp for Saddam Hussein," Bush said. "There's no democracy. This guy's a dictator. And so we'll have to see what he says.
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