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Bush warns on iraq { October 6 2002 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/international/middleeast/06IRAQ.htmlOctober 6, 2002 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/international/middleeast/06IRAQ.htmlOctober 6, 2002 Bush Tells Critics Hussein Could Strike at Any Time By DAVID E. SANGER MANCHESTER, N.H., Oct. 5 — President Bush today offered a new argument for acting quickly against Iraq, saying that Saddam Hussein "has a horrible history" of striking without warning, and he emphasized that should military force be required to oust the Mr. Hussein the United States would "help the Iraqi people rebuild and form a just government." Speaking at a rally here in New Hampshire, where he was making a political swing to bolster the Senate run of Rep. John E. Sununu, Mr. Bush stepped up his personal indictment of Mr. Hussein and made an impassioned argument for pre-emptive action. "We cannot ignore history," the president said. "We must not ignore reality. We must do everything we can to disarm this man before he hurts one single American." In Boston on Friday, Mr. Bush described Mr. Hussein as a "cold-blooded killer" a phrase he normally reserves for members of Al Qaeda and his comments today seemed directed at those who say the threat posed by Iraq is not imminent. On Monday night, Mr. Bush intends to address the nation on the Iraqi threat, and he was clearly toning his arguments today for that event. His comments today about rebuilding Iraq came in his weekly radio address and echoed recent comments made by several of his aides. But it marked the first time that Mr. Bush himself had so expressly looked beyond a military conflict and toward what many experts inside and outside his administration warn will be the more difficult task of holding the country together. "Should force be required to bring Saddam to account, the United States will work with other nations to help the Iraqi people rebuild and form a just government," Mr. Bush said in his radio address. He added: "We have no quarrel with the Iraqi people. They are the daily victims of Saddam Hussein's oppression, and they will be the first to benefit when the world's demands are met." Mr. Bush appears to be tailoring his remarks these day to influence the debate in the Senate over a resolution authorizing him to use force. Debate began on Friday, and today the Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, who has resisted pressure to sign on to wording that Mr. Bush worked out with the House of Representatives, said he still had reservations. "The wording of the resolution today is, clearly, better than it was when it started," Mr. Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, said in an interview on CNN. "It's moved in the direction we wanted it to. Can we clarify it? Can we improve on it some more? I think so." He said that the intelligence he had seen on the threat posed by Mr. Hussein is murky, and Iraq's capability and intentions were far less clear than Mr. Bush suggests. "I think you can interpret it in different ways," he said. "I don't think there is any consensus with regard to the threat, today." Mr. Daschle also said there were many unresolved questions concerning Iraq and what might follow a war. "How long will we be there?" he asked. "What will it entail, on the part of the United States? How much will it cost? Who will be involved? What kind of a framework can be established with Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds? Those are the kinds of things, I think, that have yet to be addressed satisfactorily, and it's why many of us continue to ask questions." As Mr. Bush spoke, some allies and Iraq's Arab neighbors stepped up their criticism of his pressure to confront Mr. Hussein quickly. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, who has openly split with Mr. Bush over the strategy, warned in an interview published in Cairo that the United States had not thought through the consequences of removing Saddam Hussein. He warned that an invasion and occupation of Iraq could lead to a violent civil war "because of the ethnic and religious diversity of this country." Mr. Mubarak said the result could be a "partition of Iraq." But Mr. Bush's senior aides have said repeatedly that the United States would be committed to holding the country together. Russia, which hinted earlier this week that it might be open to a new United Nations resolution on inspections of Iraq, which Mr. Bush had demanded, seemed to veer in the other direction today. "From a legal point of view, no new U.N. Security Council resolution is required for the return of inspectors," Russia's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, said today, apparently ignoring the comments yesterday of the chief United Nations inspector, Hans Blix, who said there was "very broad support" in the Security Council for setting tough new terms for inspections. But Mr. Ivanov said today that "Russia thinks that right now the most important thing is that the inspectors return to Iraq as soon as possible and start their work," and he once again opposed linking inspections to an authorization for the use of force. Copyright The New York Times Company | Permissions | Privacy Policy

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