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The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the
United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate
in order to
(1) defend the national security of the United States against
the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and
(2) enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council
Resolutions regarding Iraq.
US
State Department, October 2, 2002 |
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George Bush Jnr |
Instead, the "decision," if that is the right word,
emerged piecemeal early last summer from what had become a war
cabinet of two -- Bush and Vice President
Cheney. A few officials outside the White House spotted
the direction that Bush and Cheney
were taking in July and went to work on the best ways to conduct
a campaign that they understood was coming absent a miracle."
Seattle
PI March 21, 2003 |
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George Bush Jnr |
"But Bush seems
to have needed little persuasion or squeezing by Rumsfeld or
by Cheney, who took part in the 1991
decision to let Saddam survive and who is known to believe that
this is a rare chance in public life to correct a serious mistake."
Seattle
PI March 21, 2003 |
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George Bush Jnr |
He also said Bush decided
to use force after concluding that "Iraq's failure to disarm
presented a threat to the people of the United States. White
House spokesman Ari Fleischer in AP March 19, 2003 |
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fascism |
My guess though, is that, like it or not, want
it or not, America is going to go to war because that is the
only solution Bush and his people can see... The dire prospect
that opens, therefore, is that America is going to become a
mega-banana republic where the army will have more and more
importance in Americans' lives. It will be an ever greater and
greater overlay on the American system. And before it is all
over, democracy, noble and delicate as it is, may give way.
My long experience with human nature - I'm 80 years old now
- suggests that it is possible that fascism, not democracy,
is the natural state. Norman
Mailer, March 24, 2003 |
dick
cheney