HONORABLE PRESIDENT'S BUSH LAST STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH

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THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress,

distinguished citizens and fellow citizens: Every year, by law and by

custom, we meet here to consider the state of the union. This year, we

gather in this chamber deeply aware of decisive days that lie ahead.

You and I serve our country in a time of great consequence. During this

session of Congress, we have the duty to reform domestic programs vital to

our country; we have the opportunity to save millions of lives abroad from a

terrible disease. We will work for a prosperity that is broadly shared, and

we will answer every danger and every enemy that threatens the American

people. (Applause.)

In all these days of promise and days of reckoning, we can be confident. In

a whirlwind of change and hope and peril, our faith is sure, our resolve is

firm, and our union is strong. (Applause.)

This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore, we

will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents,

and other generations. (Applause.) We will confront them with focus and

clarity and courage.

During the last two years, we have seen what can be accomplished when we

work together. To lift the standards of our public schools, we achieved

historic education reform -- which must now be carried out in every school

and in every classroom, so that every child in America can read and learn

and succeed in life. (Applause.) To protect our country, we reorganized our

government and created the Department of Homeland Security, which is

mobilizing against the threats of a new era. To bring our economy out of

recession, we delivered the largest tax relief in a generation. (Applause.)

To insist on integrity in American business we passed tough reforms, and we

are holding corporate criminals to account. (Applause.)

Some might call this a good record; I call it a good start. Tonight I ask

the House and Senate to join me in the next bold steps to serve our fellow

citizens.

Our first goal is clear: We must have an economy that grows fast enough to

employ every man and woman who seeks a job. (Applause.) After recession,

terrorist attacks, corporate scandals and stock market declines, our economy

is recovering -- yet it's not growing fast enough, or strongly enough. With

unemployment rising, our nation needs more small businesses to open, more

companies to invest and expand, more employers to put up the sign that says,

"Help Wanted." (Applause.)

Jobs are created when the economy grows; the economy grows when Americans

have more money to spend and invest; and the best and fairest way to make

sure Americans have that money is not to tax it away in the first place.

(Applause.)

I am proposing that all the income tax reductions set for 2004 and 2006 be

made permanent and effective this year. (Applause.) And under my plan, as

soon as I sign the bill, this extra money will start showing up in workers'

paychecks. Instead of gradually reducing the marriage penalty, we should do

it now. (Applause.) Instead of slowly raising the child credit to $1,000, we

should send the checks to American families now. (Applause.)

The tax relief is for everyone who pays income taxes -- and it will help our

economy immediately: 92 million Americans will keep, this year, an average

of almost $1,000 more of their own money. A family of four with an income of

$40,000 would see their federal income taxes fall from $1,178 to $45 per

year. (Applause.) Our plan will improve the bottom line for more than 23

million small businesses.

You, the Congress, have already passed all these reductions, and promised

them for future years. If this tax relief is good for Americans three, or

five, or seven years from now, it is even better for Americans today.

(Applause.)

We should also strengthen the economy by treating investors equally in our

tax laws. It's fair to tax a company's profits. It is not fair to again tax

the shareholder on the same profits. (Applause.) To boost investor

confidence, and to help the nearly 10 million senior who receive dividend

income, I ask you to end the unfair double taxation of dividends.

(Applause.)

Lower taxes and greater investment will help this economy expand. More jobs

mean more taxpayers, and higher revenues to our government. The best way to

address the deficit and move toward a balanced budget is to encourage

economic growth, and to show some spending discipline in Washington, D.C.

(Applause.)

We must work together to fund only our most important priorities. I will

send you a budget that increases discretionary spending by 4 percent next

year -- about as much as the average family's income is expected to grow.

And that is a good benchmark for us. Federal spending should not rise any

faster than the paychecks of American families. (Applause.)

A growing economy and a focus on essential priorities will also be crucial

to the future of Social Security. As we continue to work together to keep

Social Security sound and reliable, we must offer younger workers a chance

to invest in retirement accounts that they will control and they will own.

(Applause.)

Our second goal is high quality, affordable health care for all Americans.

(Applause.) The American system of medicine is a model of skill and

innovation, with a pace of discovery that is adding good years to our lives.

Yet for many people, medical care costs too much -- and many have no

coverage at all. These problems will not be solved with a nationalized

health care system that dictates coverage and rations care. (Applause.)

Instead, we must work toward a system in which all Americans have a good

insurance policy, choose their own doctors, and seniors and low-income

Americans receive the help they need. (Applause.) Instead of bureaucrats and

trial lawyers and HMOs, we must put doctors and nurses and patients back in

charge of American medicine. (Applause.)

Health care reform must begin with Medicare; Medicare is the binding

commitment of a caring society. (Applause.) We must renew that commitment by

giving seniors access to preventive medicine and new drugs that are

transforming health care in America.

Seniors happy with the current Medicare system should be able to keep their

coverage just the way it is. (Applause.) And just like you -- the members of

Congress, and your staffs, and other federal employees -- all seniors should

have the choice of a health care plan that provides prescription drugs.

(Applause.)

My budget will commit an additional $400 billion over the next decade to

reform and strengthen Medicare. Leaders of both political parties have

talked for years about strengthening Medicare. I urge the members of this

new Congress to act this year. (Applause.)

To improve our health care system, we must address one of the prime causes

of higher cost, the constant threat that physicians and hospitals will be

unfairly sued. (Applause.) Because of excessive litigation, everybody pays

more for health care, and many parts of America are losing fine doctors. No

one has ever been healed by a frivolous lawsuit. I urge the Congress to pass

medical liability reform. (Applause.)

Our third goal is to promote energy independence for our country, while

dramatically improving the environment. (Applause.) I have sent you a

comprehensive energy plan to promote energy efficiency and conservation, to

develop cleaner technology, and to produce more energy at home. (Applause.)

I have sent you Clear Skies legislation that mandates a 70-percent cut in

air pollution from power plants over the next 15 years. (Applause.) I have

sent you a Healthy Forests Initiative, to help prevent the catastrophic

fires that devastate communities, kill wildlife, and burn away millions of

acres of treasured forest. (Applause.)

I urge you to pass these measures, for the good of both our environment and

our economy. (Applause.) Even more, I ask you to take a crucial step and

protect our environment in ways that generations before us could not have

imagined.

In this century, the greatest environmental progress will come about not

through endless lawsuits or command-and-control regulations, but through

technology and innovation. Tonight I'm proposing $1.2 billion in research

funding so that America can lead the world in developing clean,

hydrogen-powered automobiles. (Applause.)

A single chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen generates energy,

which can be used to power a car -- producing only water, not exhaust fumes.

With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome

obstacles to taking these cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the

first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and

pollution-free. (Applause.)

Join me in this important innovation to make our air significantly cleaner,

and our country much less dependent on foreign sources of energy.

(Applause.)

Our fourth goal is to apply the compassion of America to the deepest

problems of America. For so many in our country -- the homeless and the

fatherless, the addicted -- the need is great. Yet there's power,

wonder-working power, in the goodness and idealism and faith of the American

people.

Americans are doing the work of compassion every day -- visiting prisoners,

providing shelter for battered women, bringing companionship to lonely

seniors. These good works deserve our praise; they deserve our personal

support; and when appropriate, they deserve the assistance of the federal

government. (Applause.)

I urge you to pass both my faith-based initiative and the Citizen Service

Act, to encourage acts of compassion that can transform America, one heart

and one soul at a time. (Applause.)

Last year, I called on my fellow citizens to participate in the USA Freedom

Corps, which is enlisting tens of thousands of new volunteers across

America. Tonight I ask Congress and the American people to focus the spirit

of service and the resources of government on the needs of some of our most

vulnerable citizens -- boys and girls trying to grow up without guidance and

attention, and children who have to go through a prison gate to be hugged by

their mom or dad.

I propose a $450-million initiative to bring mentors to more than a million

disadvantaged junior high students and children of prisoners. Government

will support the training and recruiting of mentors; yet it is the men and

women of America who will fill the need. One mentor, one person can change a

life forever. And I urge you to be that one person. (Applause.)

Another cause of hopelessness is addiction to drugs. Addiction crowds out

friendship, ambition, moral conviction, and reduces all the richness of life

to a single destructive desire. As a government, we are fighting illegal

drugs by cutting off supplies and reducing demand through anti-drug

education programs. Yet for those already addicted, the fight against drugs

is a fight for their own lives. Too many Americans in search of treatment

cannot get it. So tonight I propose a new $600-million program to help an

additional 300,000 Americans receive treatment over the next three years.

(Applause.)

Our nation is blessed with recovery programs that do amazing work. One of

them is found at the Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A man

in the program said, "God does miracles in people's lives, and you never

think it could be you." Tonight, let us bring to all Americans who struggle

with drug addiction this message of hope: The miracle of recovery is

possible, and it could be you. (Applause.)

By caring for children who need mentors, and for addicted men and women who

need treatment, we are building a more welcoming society -- a culture that

values every life. And in this work we must not overlook the weakest among

us. I ask you to protect infants at the very hour of their birth and end the

practice of partial-birth abortion. (Applause.) And because no human life

should be started or ended as the object of an experiment, I ask you to set

a high standard for humanity, and pass a law against all human cloning.

(Applause.)

The qualities of courage and compassion that we strive for in America also

determine our conduct abroad. The American flag stands for more than our

power and our interests. Our founders dedicated this country to the cause of

human dignity, the rights of every person, and the possibilities of every

life. This conviction leads us into the world to help the afflicted, and

defend the peace, and confound the designs of evil men.

In Afghanistan, we helped liberate an oppressed people. And we will continue

helping them secure their country, rebuild their society, and educate all

their children -- boys and girls. (Applause.) In the Middle East, we will

continue to seek peace between a secure Israel and a democratic Palestine.

(Applause.) Across the Earth, America is feeding the hungry -- more than 60

percent of international food aid comes as a gift from the people of the

United States. As our nation moves troops and builds alliances to make our

world safer, we must also remember our calling as a blessed country is to

make this world better.

Today, on the continent of Africa, nearly 30 million people have the AIDS

virus -- including 3 million children under the age 15. There are whole

countries in Africa where more than one-third of the adult population

carries the infection. More than 4 million require immediate drug treatment.

Yet across that continent, only 50,000 AIDS victims -- only 50,000 -- are

receiving the medicine they need.

Because the AIDS diagnosis is considered a death sentence, many do not seek

treatment. Almost all who do are turned away. A doctor in rural South Africa

describes his frustration. He says, "We have no medicines. Many hospitals

tell people, you've got AIDS, we can't help you. Go home and die." In an age

of miraculous medicines, no person should have to hear those words.

(Applause.)

AIDS can be prevented. Anti-retroviral drugs can extend life for many years.

And the cost of those drugs has dropped from $12,000 a year to under $300 a

year -- which places a tremendous possibility within our grasp. Ladies and

gentlemen, seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much

for so many.

We have confronted, and will continue to confront, HIV/AIDS in our own

country. And to meet a severe and urgent crisis abroad, tonight I propose

the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief -- a work of mercy beyond all current

international efforts to help the people of Africa. This comprehensive plan

will prevent 7 million new AIDS infections, treat at least 2 million people

with life-extending drugs, and provide humane care for millions of people

suffering from AIDS, and for children orphaned by AIDS. (Applause.)

I ask the Congress to commit $15 billion over the next five years, including

nearly $10 billion in new money, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most

afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean. (Applause.)

This nation can lead the world in sparing innocent people from a plague of

nature. And this nation is leading the world in confronting and defeating

the man-made evil of international terrorism. (Applause.)

There are days when our fellow citizens do not hear news about the war on

terror. There's never a day when I do not learn of another threat, or

receive reports of operations in progress, or give an order in this global

war against a scattered network of killers. The war goes on, and we are

winning. (Applause.)

To date, we've arrested or otherwise dealt with many key commanders of al

Qaeda. They include a man who directed logistics and funding for the

September the 11th attacks; the chief of al Qaeda operations in the Persian

Gulf, who planned the bombings of our embassies in East Africa and the USS

Cole; an al Qaeda operations chief from Southeast Asia; a former director of

al Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan; a key al Qaeda operative in

Europe; a major al Qaeda leader in Yemen. All told, more than 3,000

suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have

met a different fate. Let's put it this way -- they are no longer a problem

to the United States and our friends and allies. (Applause.)

We are working closely with other nations to prevent further attacks.

America and coalition countries have uncovered and stopped terrorist

conspiracies targeting the American embassy in Yemen, the American embassy

in Singapore, a Saudi military base, ships in the Straits of Hormuz and the

Straits the Gibraltar. We've broken al Qaeda cells in Hamburg, Milan,

Madrid, London, Paris, as well as, Buffalo, New York.

We have the terrorists on the run. We're keeping them on the run. One by

one, the terrorists are learning the meaning of American justice.

(Applause.)

As we fight this war, we will remember where it began -- here, in our own

country. This government is taking unprecedented measures to protect our

people and defend our homeland. We've intensified security at the borders

and ports of entry, posted more than 50,000 newly-trained federal screeners

in airports, begun inoculating troops and first responders against smallpox,

and are deploying the nation's first early warning network of sensors to

detect biological attack. And this year, for the first time, we are

beginning to field a defense to protect this nation against ballistic

missiles. (Applause.)

I thank the Congress for supporting these measures. I ask you tonight to add

to our future security with a major research and production effort to guard

our people against bioterrorism, called Project Bioshield. The budget I send

you will propose almost $6 billion to quickly make available effective

vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola,

and plague. We must assume that our enemies would use these diseases as

weapons, and we must act before the dangers are upon us. (Applause.)

Since September the 11th, our intelligence and law enforcement agencies have

worked more closely than ever to track and disrupt the terrorists. The FBI

is improving its ability to analyze intelligence, and is transforming itself

to meet new threats. Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, the

CIA, the Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to develop a

Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat

information in a single location. Our government must have the very best

information possible, and we will use it to make sure the right people are

in the right places to protect all our citizens. (Applause.)

Our war against terror is a contest of will in which perseverance is power.

In the ruins of two towers, at the western wall of the Pentagon, on a field

in Pennsylvania, this nation made a pledge, and we renew that pledge

tonight: Whatever the duration of this struggle, and whatever the

difficulties, we will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of

men -- free people will set the course of history. (Applause.)

Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing

America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear,

chemical, and biological weapons. These regimes could use such weapons for

blackmail, terror, and mass murder. They could also give or sell those

weapons to terrorist allies, who would use them without the least

hesitation.

This threat is new; America's duty is familiar. Throughout the 20th century,

small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and

arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world. In each

case, their ambitions of cruelty and murder had no limit. In each case, the

ambitions of Hitlerism, militarism, and communism were defeated by the will

of free peoples, by the strength of great alliances, and by the might of the

United States of America. (Applause.)

Now, in this century, the ideology of power and domination has appeared

again, and seeks to gain the ultimate weapons of terror. Once again, this

nation and all our friends are all that stand between a world at peace, and

a world of chaos and constant alarm. Once again, we are called to defend the

safety of our people, and the hopes of all mankind. And we accept this

responsibility. (Applause.)

America is making a broad and determined effort to confront these dangers.

We have called on the United Nations to fulfill its charter and stand by its

demand that Iraq disarm. We're strongly supporting the International Atomic

Energy Agency in its mission to track and control nuclear materials around

the world. We're working with other governments to secure nuclear materials

in the former Soviet Union, and to strengthen global treaties banning the

production and shipment of missile technologies and weapons of mass

destruction.

In all these efforts, however, America's purpose is more than to follow a

process -- it is to achieve a result: the end of terrible threats to the

civilized world. All free nations have a stake in preventing sudden and

catastrophic attacks. And we're asking them to join us, and many are doing

so. Yet the course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of

others. (Applause.) Whatever action is required, whenever action is

necessary, I will defend the freedom and security of the American people.

(Applause.)

Different threats require different strategies. In Iran, we continue to see

a government that represses its people, pursues weapons of mass destruction,

and supports terror. We also see Iranian citizens risking intimidation and

death as they speak out for liberty and human rights and democracy.

Iranians, like all people, have a right to choose their own government and

determine their own destiny -- and the United States supports their

aspirations to live in freedom. (Applause.)

On the Korean Peninsula, an oppressive regime rules a people living in fear

and starvation. Throughout the 1990s, the United States relied on a

negotiated framework to keep North Korea from gaining nuclear weapons. We

now know that that regime was deceiving the world, and developing those

weapons all along. And today the North Korean regime is using its nuclear

program to incite fear and seek concessions. America and the world will not

be blackmailed. (Applause.)

America is working with the countries of the region -- South Korea, Japan,

China, and Russia -- to find a peaceful solution, and to show the North

Korean government that nuclear weapons will bring only isolation, economic

stagnation, and continued hardship. (Applause.) The North Korean regime will

find respect in the world and revival for its people only when it turns away

from its nuclear ambitions. (Applause.)

Our nation and the world must learn the lessons of the Korean Peninsula and

not allow an even greater threat to rise up in Iraq. A brutal dictator, with

a history of reckless aggression, with ties to terrorism, with great

potential wealth, will not be permitted to dominate a vital region and

threaten the United States. (Applause.)

Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last

casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to

disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next 12 years, he

systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical, biological, and

nuclear weapons, even while inspectors were in his country. Nothing to date

has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons -- not economic

sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise missile

strikes on his military facilities.

Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave Saddam

Hussein his final chance to disarm. He has shown instead utter contempt for

the United Nations, and for the opinion of the world. The 108 U.N.

inspectors were sent to conduct -- were not sent to conduct a scavenger hunt

for hidden materials across a country the size of California. The job of the

inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming. It is up to Iraq to

show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those weapons out

for the world to see, and destroy them as directed. Nothing like this has

happened.

The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological

weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax -- enough doses

to kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that material. He's

given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to

produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin -- enough to subject

millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He hadn't accounted for

that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to

produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such

quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands. He's not

accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has

destroyed them.

U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000

munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned

up 16 of them -- despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence.

Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these

prohibited munitions. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed them.

From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several

mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ warfare

agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors. Saddam

Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He's given no evidence that he

has destroyed them.

The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam

Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design

for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching

uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein

recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our

intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength

aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam Hussein has

not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide.

The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. To the contrary; he is deceiving.

From intelligence sources we know, for instance, that thousands of Iraqi

security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the U.N.

inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors

themselves. Iraqi officials accompany the inspectors in order to intimidate

witnesses.

Iraq is blocking U-2 surveillance flights requested by the United Nations.

Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors are

supposed to interview. Real scientists have been coached by Iraqi officials

on what to say. Intelligence sources indicate that Saddam Hussein has

ordered that scientists who cooperate with U.N. inspectors in disarming Iraq

will be killed, along with their families.

Year after year, Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent

enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass

destruction. But why? The only possible explanation, the only possible use

he could have for those weapons, is to dominate, intimidate, or attack.

With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological weapons,

Saddam Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle East and

create deadly havoc in that region. And this Congress and the America people

must recognize another threat. Evidence from intelligence sources, secret

communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam

Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda.

Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden

weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.

Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein

could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy

terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers with

other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It would

take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a

day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in our

power to make sure that that day never comes. (Applause.)

Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have

terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on

notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly

emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late.

Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy,

and it is not an option. (Applause.)

The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has

already used them on whole villages -- leaving thousands of his own citizens

dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions

are obtained -- by torturing children while their parents are made to watch.

International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used in the

torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping

acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and

rape. If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning. (Applause.)

And tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq:

Your enemy is not surrounding your country -- your enemy is ruling your

country. (Applause.) And the day he and his regime are removed from power

will be the day of your liberation. (Applause.)

The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. America will not accept a

serious and mounting threat to our country, and our friends and our allies.

The United States will ask the U.N. Security Council to convene on February

the 5th to consider the facts of Iraq's ongoing defiance of the world.

Secretary of State Powell will present information and intelligence about

Iraqi's legal -- Iraq's illegal weapons programs, its attempt to hide those

weapons from inspectors, and its links to terrorist groups.

We will consult. But let there be no misunderstanding: If Saddam Hussein

does not fully disarm, for the safety of our people and for the peace of the

world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him. (Applause.)

Tonight I have a message for the men and women who will keep the peace,

members of the American Armed Forces: Many of you are assembling in or near

the Middle East, and some crucial hours may lay ahead. In those hours, the

success of our cause will depend on you. Your training has prepared you.

Your honor will guide you. You believe in America, and America believes in

you. (Applause.)

Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President can

make. The technologies of war have changed; the risks and suffering of war

have not. For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is free from

sorrow. This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost and we

dread the days of mourning that always come.

We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be defended. A

future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all. If war is

forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means -- sparing,

in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us, we will

fight with the full force and might of the United States military -- and we

will prevail. (Applause.)

And as we and our coalition partners are doing in Afghanistan, we will bring

to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies -- and freedom.

(Applause.)

Many challenges, abroad and at home, have arrived in a single season. In two

years, America has gone from a sense of invulnerability to an awareness of

peril; from bitter division in small matters to calm unity in great causes.

And we go forward with confidence, because this call of history has come to

the right country.

Americans are a resolute people who have risen to every test of our time.

Adversity has revealed the character of our country, to the world and to

ourselves. America is a strong nation, and honorable in the use of our

strength. We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for the

liberty of strangers.

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every

person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's

gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity. (Applause.)

We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not

know -- we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust

in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and

all of history.

May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of

America. (Applause.)

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>THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress,

>distinguished citizens and fellow citizens: Every year, by law and by

>custom, we meet here to consider the state of the union. This year, we

>gather in this chamber deeply aware of decisive days that lie ahead.....and I'm

>Still figuring out how to give more money to the richest and make Cheney happy about the war.

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> THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress,

> distinguished citizens and fellow citizens: Every year, by law and by

> custom, we meet here to consider the state of the union. This year, we

> gather in this chamber deeply aware of decisive days that lie ahead.

>

> You and I serve our country in a time of great consequence. During this

> session of Congress, we have the duty to reform domestic programs vital to

> our country; we have the opportunity to save millions of lives abroad from

a

> terrible disease. We will work for a prosperity that is broadly shared,

and

> we will answer every danger and every enemy that threatens the American

> people. (Applause.)

> In all these days of promise and days of reckoning, we can be confident.

In

> a whirlwind of change and hope and peril, our faith is sure, our resolve

is

> firm, and our union is strong. (Applause.)

>

> This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore, we

> will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents,

> and other generations. (Applause.) We will confront them with focus and

> clarity and courage.

>

> During the last two years, we have seen what can be accomplished when we

> work together. To lift the standards of our public schools, we achieved

> historic education reform -- which must now be carried out in every school

> and in every classroom, so that every child in America can read and learn

> and succeed in life. (Applause.) To protect our country, we reorganized

our

> government and created the Department of Homeland Security, which is

> mobilizing against the threats of a new era. To bring our economy out of

> recession, we delivered the largest tax relief in a generation.

(Applause.)

> To insist on integrity in American business we passed tough reforms, and

we

> are holding corporate criminals to account. (Applause.)

>

> Some might call this a good record; I call it a good start. Tonight I ask

> the House and Senate to join me in the next bold steps to serve our fellow

> citizens.

>

> Our first goal is clear: We must have an economy that grows fast enough to

> employ every man and woman who seeks a job. (Applause.) After recession,

> terrorist attacks, corporate scandals and stock market declines, our

economy

> is recovering -- yet it's not growing fast enough, or strongly enough.

With

> unemployment rising, our nation needs more small businesses to open, more

> companies to invest and expand, more employers to put up the sign that

says,

> "Help Wanted." (Applause.)

>

> Jobs are created when the economy grows; the economy grows when Americans

> have more money to spend and invest; and the best and fairest way to make

> sure Americans have that money is not to tax it away in the first place.

> (Applause.)

>

>

> I am proposing that all the income tax reductions set for 2004 and 2006 be

> made permanent and effective this year. (Applause.) And under my plan, as

> soon as I sign the bill, this extra money will start showing up in

workers'

> paychecks. Instead of gradually reducing the marriage penalty, we should

do

> it now. (Applause.) Instead of slowly raising the child credit to $1,000,

we

> should send the checks to American families now. (Applause.)

> The tax relief is for everyone who pays income taxes -- and it will help

our

> economy immediately: 92 million Americans will keep, this year, an average

> of almost $1,000 more of their own money. A family of four with an income

of

> $40,000 would see their federal income taxes fall from $1,178 to $45 per

> year. (Applause.) Our plan will improve the bottom line for more than 23

> million small businesses.

>

> You, the Congress, have already passed all these reductions, and promised

> them for future years. If this tax relief is good for Americans three, or

> five, or seven years from now, it is even better for Americans today.

> (Applause.)

>

> We should also strengthen the economy by treating investors equally in our

> tax laws. It's fair to tax a company's profits. It is not fair to again

tax

> the shareholder on the same profits. (Applause.) To boost investor

> confidence, and to help the nearly 10 million senior who receive dividend

> income, I ask you to end the unfair double taxation of dividends.

> (Applause.)

>

> Lower taxes and greater investment will help this economy expand. More

jobs

> mean more taxpayers, and higher revenues to our government. The best way

to

> address the deficit and move toward a balanced budget is to encourage

> economic growth, and to show some spending discipline in Washington, D.C.

> (Applause.)

>

> We must work together to fund only our most important priorities. I will

> send you a budget that increases discretionary spending by 4 percent next

> year -- about as much as the average family's income is expected to grow.

> And that is a good benchmark for us. Federal spending should not rise any

> faster than the paychecks of American families. (Applause.)

>

> A growing economy and a focus on essential priorities will also be crucial

> to the future of Social Security. As we continue to work together to keep

> Social Security sound and reliable, we must offer younger workers a chance

> to invest in retirement accounts that they will control and they will own.

> (Applause.)

>

>

> Our second goal is high quality, affordable health care for all Americans.

> (Applause.) The American system of medicine is a model of skill and

> innovation, with a pace of discovery that is adding good years to our

lives.

> Yet for many people, medical care costs too much -- and many have no

> coverage at all. These problems will not be solved with a nationalized

> health care system that dictates coverage and rations care. (Applause.)

> Instead, we must work toward a system in which all Americans have a good

> insurance policy, choose their own doctors, and seniors and low-income

> Americans receive the help they need. (Applause.) Instead of bureaucrats

and

> trial lawyers and HMOs, we must put doctors and nurses and patients back

in

> charge of American medicine. (Applause.)

>

> Health care reform must begin with Medicare; Medicare is the binding

> commitment of a caring society. (Applause.) We must renew that commitment

by

> giving seniors access to preventive medicine and new drugs that are

> transforming health care in America.

>

> Seniors happy with the current Medicare system should be able to keep

their

> coverage just the way it is. (Applause.) And just like you -- the members

of

> Congress, and your staffs, and other federal employees -- all seniors

should

> have the choice of a health care plan that provides prescription drugs.

> (Applause.)

>

> My budget will commit an additional $400 billion over the next decade to

> reform and strengthen Medicare. Leaders of both political parties have

> talked for years about strengthening Medicare. I urge the members of this

> new Congress to act this year. (Applause.)

>

> To improve our health care system, we must address one of the prime causes

> of higher cost, the constant threat that physicians and hospitals will be

> unfairly sued. (Applause.) Because of excessive litigation, everybody pays

> more for health care, and many parts of America are losing fine doctors.

No

> one has ever been healed by a frivolous lawsuit. I urge the Congress to

pass

> medical liability reform. (Applause.)

>

> Our third goal is to promote energy independence for our country, while

> dramatically improving the environment. (Applause.) I have sent you a

> comprehensive energy plan to promote energy efficiency and conservation,

to

> develop cleaner technology, and to produce more energy at home.

(Applause.)

> I have sent you Clear Skies legislation that mandates a 70-percent cut in

> air pollution from power plants over the next 15 years. (Applause.) I have

> sent you a Healthy Forests Initiative, to help prevent the catastrophic

> fires that devastate communities, kill wildlife, and burn away millions of

> acres of treasured forest. (Applause.)

>

>

> I urge you to pass these measures, for the good of both our environment

and

> our economy. (Applause.) Even more, I ask you to take a crucial step and

> protect our environment in ways that generations before us could not have

> imagined.

> In this century, the greatest environmental progress will come about not

> through endless lawsuits or command-and-control regulations, but through

> technology and innovation. Tonight I'm proposing $1.2 billion in research

> funding so that America can lead the world in developing clean,

> hydrogen-powered automobiles. (Applause.)

>

> A single chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen generates energy,

> which can be used to power a car -- producing only water, not exhaust

fumes.

> With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome

> obstacles to taking these cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the

> first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and

> pollution-free. (Applause.)

>

> Join me in this important innovation to make our air significantly

cleaner,

> and our country much less dependent on foreign sources of energy.

> (Applause.)

>

> Our fourth goal is to apply the compassion of America to the deepest

> problems of America. For so many in our country -- the homeless and the

> fatherless, the addicted -- the need is great. Yet there's power,

> wonder-working power, in the goodness and idealism and faith of the

American

> people.

>

> Americans are doing the work of compassion every day -- visiting

prisoners,

> providing shelter for battered women, bringing companionship to lonely

> seniors. These good works deserve our praise; they deserve our personal

> support; and when appropriate, they deserve the assistance of the federal

> government. (Applause.)

>

> I urge you to pass both my faith-based initiative and the Citizen Service

> Act, to encourage acts of compassion that can transform America, one heart

> and one soul at a time. (Applause.)

>

> Last year, I called on my fellow citizens to participate in the USA

Freedom

> Corps, which is enlisting tens of thousands of new volunteers across

> America. Tonight I ask Congress and the American people to focus the

spirit

> of service and the resources of government on the needs of some of our

most

> vulnerable citizens -- boys and girls trying to grow up without guidance

and

> attention, and children who have to go through a prison gate to be hugged

by

> their mom or dad.

>

>

> I propose a $450-million initiative to bring mentors to more than a

million

> disadvantaged junior high students and children of prisoners. Government

> will support the training and recruiting of mentors; yet it is the men and

> women of America who will fill the need. One mentor, one person can change

a

> life forever. And I urge you to be that one person. (Applause.)

> Another cause of hopelessness is addiction to drugs. Addiction crowds out

> friendship, ambition, moral conviction, and reduces all the richness of

life

> to a single destructive desire. As a government, we are fighting illegal

> drugs by cutting off supplies and reducing demand through anti-drug

> education programs. Yet for those already addicted, the fight against

drugs

> is a fight for their own lives. Too many Americans in search of treatment

> cannot get it. So tonight I propose a new $600-million program to help an

> additional 300,000 Americans receive treatment over the next three years.

> (Applause.)

>

> Our nation is blessed with recovery programs that do amazing work. One of

> them is found at the Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A man

> in the program said, "God does miracles in people's lives, and you never

> think it could be you." Tonight, let us bring to all Americans who

struggle

> with drug addiction this message of hope: The miracle of recovery is

> possible, and it could be you. (Applause.)

>

> By caring for children who need mentors, and for addicted men and women

who

> need treatment, we are building a more welcoming society -- a culture that

> values every life. And in this work we must not overlook the weakest among

> us. I ask you to protect infants at the very hour of their birth and end

the

> practice of partial-birth abortion. (Applause.) And because no human life

> should be started or ended as the object of an experiment, I ask you to

set

> a high standard for humanity, and pass a law against all human cloning.

> (Applause.)

>

> The qualities of courage and compassion that we strive for in America also

> determine our conduct abroad. The American flag stands for more than our

> power and our interests. Our founders dedicated this country to the cause

of

> human dignity, the rights of every person, and the possibilities of every

> life. This conviction leads us into the world to help the afflicted, and

> defend the peace, and confound the designs of evil men.

>

> In Afghanistan, we helped liberate an oppressed people. And we will

continue

> helping them secure their country, rebuild their society, and educate all

> their children -- boys and girls. (Applause.) In the Middle East, we will

> continue to seek peace between a secure Israel and a democratic Palestine.

> (Applause.) Across the Earth, America is feeding the hungry -- more than

60

> percent of international food aid comes as a gift from the people of the

> United States. As our nation moves troops and builds alliances to make our

> world safer, we must also remember our calling as a blessed country is to

> make this world better.

>

> Today, on the continent of Africa, nearly 30 million people have the AIDS

> virus -- including 3 million children under the age 15. There are whole

> countries in Africa where more than one-third of the adult population

> carries the infection. More than 4 million require immediate drug

treatment.

> Yet across that continent, only 50,000 AIDS victims -- only 50,000 -- are

> receiving the medicine they need.

>

> Because the AIDS diagnosis is considered a death sentence, many do not

seek

> treatment. Almost all who do are turned away. A doctor in rural South

Africa

> describes his frustration. He says, "We have no medicines. Many hospitals

> tell people, you've got AIDS, we can't help you. Go home and die." In an

age

> of miraculous medicines, no person should have to hear those words.

> (Applause.)

>

> AIDS can be prevented. Anti-retroviral drugs can extend life for many

years.

> And the cost of those drugs has dropped from $12,000 a year to under $300

a

> year -- which places a tremendous possibility within our grasp. Ladies and

> gentlemen, seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much

> for so many.

>

> We have confronted, and will continue to confront, HIV/AIDS in our own

> country. And to meet a severe and urgent crisis abroad, tonight I propose

> the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief -- a work of mercy beyond all current

> international efforts to help the people of Africa. This comprehensive

plan

> will prevent 7 million new AIDS infections, treat at least 2 million

people

> with life-extending drugs, and provide humane care for millions of people

> suffering from AIDS, and for children orphaned by AIDS. (Applause.)

>

> I ask the Congress to commit $15 billion over the next five years,

including

> nearly $10 billion in new money, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most

> afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean. (Applause.)

>

> This nation can lead the world in sparing innocent people from a plague of

> nature. And this nation is leading the world in confronting and defeating

> the man-made evil of international terrorism. (Applause.)

>

> There are days when our fellow citizens do not hear news about the war on

> terror. There's never a day when I do not learn of another threat, or

> receive reports of operations in progress, or give an order in this global

> war against a scattered network of killers. The war goes on, and we are

> winning. (Applause.)

>

> To date, we've arrested or otherwise dealt with many key commanders of al

> Qaeda. They include a man who directed logistics and funding for the

> September the 11th attacks; the chief of al Qaeda operations in the

Persian

> Gulf, who planned the bombings of our embassies in East Africa and the USS

> Cole; an al Qaeda operations chief from Southeast Asia; a former director

of

> al Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan; a key al Qaeda operative in

> Europe; a major al Qaeda leader in Yemen. All told, more than 3,000

> suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others

have

> met a different fate. Let's put it this way -- they are no longer a

problem

> to the United States and our friends and allies. (Applause.)

>

> We are working closely with other nations to prevent further attacks.

> America and coalition countries have uncovered and stopped terrorist

> conspiracies targeting the American embassy in Yemen, the American embassy

> in Singapore, a Saudi military base, ships in the Straits of Hormuz and

the

> Straits the Gibraltar. We've broken al Qaeda cells in Hamburg, Milan,

> Madrid, London, Paris, as well as, Buffalo, New York.

>

> We have the terrorists on the run. We're keeping them on the run. One by

> one, the terrorists are learning the meaning of American justice.

> (Applause.)

>

> As we fight this war, we will remember where it began -- here, in our own

> country. This government is taking unprecedented measures to protect our

> people and defend our homeland. We've intensified security at the borders

> and ports of entry, posted more than 50,000 newly-trained federal

screeners

> in airports, begun inoculating troops and first responders against

smallpox,

> and are deploying the nation's first early warning network of sensors to

> detect biological attack. And this year, for the first time, we are

> beginning to field a defense to protect this nation against ballistic

> missiles. (Applause.)

>

> I thank the Congress for supporting these measures. I ask you tonight to

add

> to our future security with a major research and production effort to

guard

> our people against bioterrorism, called Project Bioshield. The budget I

send

> you will propose almost $6 billion to quickly make available effective

> vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin,

Ebola,

> and plague. We must assume that our enemies would use these diseases as

> weapons, and we must act before the dangers are upon us. (Applause.)

>

> Since September the 11th, our intelligence and law enforcement agencies

have

> worked more closely than ever to track and disrupt the terrorists. The FBI

> is improving its ability to analyze intelligence, and is transforming

itself

> to meet new threats. Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, the

> CIA, the Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to develop a

> Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat

> information in a single location. Our government must have the very best

> information possible, and we will use it to make sure the right people are

> in the right places to protect all our citizens. (Applause.)

>

> Our war against terror is a contest of will in which perseverance is

power.

> In the ruins of two towers, at the western wall of the Pentagon, on a

field

> in Pennsylvania, this nation made a pledge, and we renew that pledge

> tonight: Whatever the duration of this struggle, and whatever the

> difficulties, we will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of

> men -- free people will set the course of history. (Applause.)

>

> Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing

> America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear,

> chemical, and biological weapons. These regimes could use such weapons for

> blackmail, terror, and mass murder. They could also give or sell those

> weapons to terrorist allies, who would use them without the least

> hesitation.

>

> This threat is new; America's duty is familiar. Throughout the 20th

century,

> small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and

> arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world. In

each

> case, their ambitions of cruelty and murder had no limit. In each case,

the

> ambitions of Hitlerism, militarism, and communism were defeated by the

will

> of free peoples, by the strength of great alliances, and by the might of

the

> United States of America. (Applause.)

>

> Now, in this century, the ideology of power and domination has appeared

> again, and seeks to gain the ultimate weapons of terror. Once again, this

> nation and all our friends are all that stand between a world at peace,

and

> a world of chaos and constant alarm. Once again, we are called to defend

the

> safety of our people, and the hopes of all mankind. And we accept this

> responsibility. (Applause.)

>

> America is making a broad and determined effort to confront these dangers.

> We have called on the United Nations to fulfill its charter and stand by

its

> demand that Iraq disarm. We're strongly supporting the International

Atomic

> Energy Agency in its mission to track and control nuclear materials around

> the world. We're working with other governments to secure nuclear

materials

> in the former Soviet Union, and to strengthen global treaties banning the

> production and shipment of missile technologies and weapons of mass

> destruction.

>

> In all these efforts, however, America's purpose is more than to follow a

> process -- it is to achieve a result: the end of terrible threats to the

> civilized world. All free nations have a stake in preventing sudden and

> catastrophic attacks. And we're asking them to join us, and many are doing

> so. Yet the course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of

> others. (Applause.) Whatever action is required, whenever action is

> necessary, I will defend the freedom and security of the American people.

> (Applause.)

>

> Different threats require different strategies. In Iran, we continue to

see

> a government that represses its people, pursues weapons of mass

destruction,

> and supports terror. We also see Iranian citizens risking intimidation and

> death as they speak out for liberty and human rights and democracy.

> Iranians, like all people, have a right to choose their own government and

> determine their own destiny -- and the United States supports their

> aspirations to live in freedom. (Applause.)

>

> On the Korean Peninsula, an oppressive regime rules a people living in

fear

> and starvation. Throughout the 1990s, the United States relied on a

> negotiated framework to keep North Korea from gaining nuclear weapons. We

> now know that that regime was deceiving the world, and developing those

> weapons all along. And today the North Korean regime is using its nuclear

> program to incite fear and seek concessions. America and the world will

not

> be blackmailed. (Applause.)

>

> America is working with the countries of the region -- South Korea, Japan,

> China, and Russia -- to find a peaceful solution, and to show the North

> Korean government that nuclear weapons will bring only isolation, economic

> stagnation, and continued hardship. (Applause.) The North Korean regime

will

> find respect in the world and revival for its people only when it turns

away

> from its nuclear ambitions. (Applause.)

>

> Our nation and the world must learn the lessons of the Korean Peninsula

and

> not allow an even greater threat to rise up in Iraq. A brutal dictator,

with

> a history of reckless aggression, with ties to terrorism, with great

> potential wealth, will not be permitted to dominate a vital region and

> threaten the United States. (Applause.)

>

> Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last

> casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to

> disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next 12 years, he

> systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical, biological,

and

> nuclear weapons, even while inspectors were in his country. Nothing to

date

> has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons -- not economic

> sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise missile

> strikes on his military facilities.

>

> Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave Saddam

> Hussein his final chance to disarm. He has shown instead utter contempt

for

> the United Nations, and for the opinion of the world. The 108 U.N.

> inspectors were sent to conduct -- were not sent to conduct a scavenger

hunt

> for hidden materials across a country the size of California. The job of

the

> inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming. It is up to Iraq

to

> show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those weapons out

> for the world to see, and destroy them as directed. Nothing like this has

> happened.

>

> The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological

> weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax -- enough

doses

> to kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that material.

He's

> given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

>

> The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient

to

> produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin -- enough to subject

> millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He hadn't accounted

for

> that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

>

> Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials

to

> produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such

> quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands. He's

not

> accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has

> destroyed them.

>

> U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000

> munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently

turned

> up 16 of them -- despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their

existence.

> Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these

> prohibited munitions. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed them.

>

> From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had

several

> mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ warfare

> agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors. Saddam

> Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He's given no evidence that he

> has destroyed them.

>

> The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam

> Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design

> for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of

enriching

> uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein

> recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our

> intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase

high-strength

> aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam Hussein has

> not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide.

>

> The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. To the contrary; he is deceiving.

> From intelligence sources we know, for instance, that thousands of Iraqi

> security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the

U.N.

> inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors

> themselves. Iraqi officials accompany the inspectors in order to

intimidate

> witnesses.

>

> Iraq is blocking U-2 surveillance flights requested by the United Nations.

> Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors are

> supposed to interview. Real scientists have been coached by Iraqi

officials

> on what to say. Intelligence sources indicate that Saddam Hussein has

> ordered that scientists who cooperate with U.N. inspectors in disarming

Iraq

> will be killed, along with their families.

>

> Year after year, Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent

> enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass

> destruction. But why? The only possible explanation, the only possible use

> he could have for those weapons, is to dominate, intimidate, or attack.

>

> With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological weapons,

> Saddam Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle East

and

> create deadly havoc in that region. And this Congress and the America

people

> must recognize another threat. Evidence from intelligence sources, secret

> communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam

> Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda.

> Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden

> weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.

>

> Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein

> could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy

> terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers

with

> other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It

would

> take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring

a

> day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in our

> power to make sure that that day never comes. (Applause.)

>

> Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when

have

> terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on

> notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and

suddenly

> emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too

late.

> Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy,

> and it is not an option. (Applause.)

>

> The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has

> already used them on whole villages -- leaving thousands of his own

citizens

> dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions

> are obtained -- by torturing children while their parents are made to

watch.

> International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used in

the

> torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping

> acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues,

and

> rape. If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning. (Applause.)

>

> And tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq:

> Your enemy is not surrounding your country -- your enemy is ruling your

> country. (Applause.) And the day he and his regime are removed from power

> will be the day of your liberation. (Applause.)

>

> The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. America will not accept

a

> serious and mounting threat to our country, and our friends and our

allies.

> The United States will ask the U.N. Security Council to convene on

February

> the 5th to consider the facts of Iraq's ongoing defiance of the world.

> Secretary of State Powell will present information and intelligence about

> Iraqi's legal -- Iraq's illegal weapons programs, its attempt to hide

those

> weapons from inspectors, and its links to terrorist groups.

>

> We will consult. But let there be no misunderstanding: If Saddam Hussein

> does not fully disarm, for the safety of our people and for the peace of

the

> world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him. (Applause.)

>

> Tonight I have a message for the men and women who will keep the peace,

> members of the American Armed Forces: Many of you are assembling in or

near

> the Middle East, and some crucial hours may lay ahead. In those hours, the

> success of our cause will depend on you. Your training has prepared you.

> Your honor will guide you. You believe in America, and America believes in

> you. (Applause.)

>

> Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President

can

> make. The technologies of war have changed; the risks and suffering of war

> have not. For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is free

from

> sorrow. This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost and we

> dread the days of mourning that always come.

>

> We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be defended.

A

> future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all. If war

is

> forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means --

sparing,

> in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us, we will

> fight with the full force and might of the United States military -- and

we

> will prevail. (Applause.)

>

> And as we and our coalition partners are doing in Afghanistan, we will

bring

> to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies -- and freedom.

> (Applause.)

>

> Many challenges, abroad and at home, have arrived in a single season. In

two

> years, America has gone from a sense of invulnerability to an awareness of

> peril; from bitter division in small matters to calm unity in great

causes.

> And we go forward with confidence, because this call of history has come

to

> the right country.

>

> Americans are a resolute people who have risen to every test of our time.

> Adversity has revealed the character of our country, to the world and to

> ourselves. America is a strong nation, and honorable in the use of our

> strength. We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for the

> liberty of strangers.

>

> Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every

> person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not

America's

> gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity. (Applause.)

>

> We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do

not

> know -- we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can

trust

> in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and

> all of history.

>

> May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of

> America. (Applause.)

>

All rehashed horse shit from backward looking repuplicans and their simian

leader. Nothing uplifting, nothing inspiring, nothing new and nothing we

haven't heard before.

Get a clue, the Bush presidency has been one of the worst in American

history and the nitwits at the helm have no idea how to fix it.

Holy shit there's still morons out there that support this fuckwad?

"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

news:HJEnj.5096$so6.4818@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net...

> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

>

> THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress,

> distinguished citizens and fellow citizens: Every year, by law and by

> custom, we meet here to consider the state of the union. This year, we

> gather in this chamber deeply aware of decisive days that lie ahead.

>

> You and I serve our country in a time of great consequence. During this

> session of Congress, we have the duty to reform domestic programs vital to

> our country; we have the opportunity to save millions of lives abroad from

> a terrible disease. We will work for a prosperity that is broadly shared,

> and we will answer every danger and every enemy that threatens the

> American people. (Applause.)

> In all these days of promise and days of reckoning, we can be confident.

> In a whirlwind of change and hope and peril, our faith is sure, our

> resolve is firm, and our union is strong. (Applause.)

>

> This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore, we

> will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents,

> and other generations. (Applause.) We will confront them with focus and

> clarity and courage.

>

> During the last two years, we have seen what can be accomplished when we

> work together. To lift the standards of our public schools, we achieved

> historic education reform -- which must now be carried out in every school

> and in every classroom, so that every child in America can read and learn

> and succeed in life. (Applause.) To protect our country, we reorganized

> our government and created the Department of Homeland Security, which is

> mobilizing against the threats of a new era. To bring our economy out of

> recession, we delivered the largest tax relief in a generation.

> (Applause.) To insist on integrity in American business we passed tough

> reforms, and we are holding corporate criminals to account. (Applause.)

>

> Some might call this a good record; I call it a good start. Tonight I ask

> the House and Senate to join me in the next bold steps to serve our fellow

> citizens.

>

> Our first goal is clear: We must have an economy that grows fast enough to

> employ every man and woman who seeks a job. (Applause.) After recession,

> terrorist attacks, corporate scandals and stock market declines, our

> economy is recovering -- yet it's not growing fast enough, or strongly

> enough. With unemployment rising, our nation needs more small businesses

> to open, more companies to invest and expand, more employers to put up the

> sign that says, "Help Wanted." (Applause.)

>

> Jobs are created when the economy grows; the economy grows when Americans

> have more money to spend and invest; and the best and fairest way to make

> sure Americans have that money is not to tax it away in the first place.

> (Applause.)

>

>

> I am proposing that all the income tax reductions set for 2004 and 2006 be

> made permanent and effective this year. (Applause.) And under my plan, as

> soon as I sign the bill, this extra money will start showing up in

> workers' paychecks. Instead of gradually reducing the marriage penalty, we

> should do it now. (Applause.) Instead of slowly raising the child credit

> to $1,000, we should send the checks to American families now. (Applause.)

> The tax relief is for everyone who pays income taxes -- and it will help

> our economy immediately: 92 million Americans will keep, this year, an

> average of almost $1,000 more of their own money. A family of four with an

> income of $40,000 would see their federal income taxes fall from $1,178 to

> $45 per year. (Applause.) Our plan will improve the bottom line for more

> than 23 million small businesses.

>

> You, the Congress, have already passed all these reductions, and promised

> them for future years. If this tax relief is good for Americans three, or

> five, or seven years from now, it is even better for Americans today.

> (Applause.)

>

> We should also strengthen the economy by treating investors equally in our

> tax laws. It's fair to tax a company's profits. It is not fair to again

> tax the shareholder on the same profits. (Applause.) To boost investor

> confidence, and to help the nearly 10 million senior who receive dividend

> income, I ask you to end the unfair double taxation of dividends.

> (Applause.)

>

> Lower taxes and greater investment will help this economy expand. More

> jobs mean more taxpayers, and higher revenues to our government. The best

> way to address the deficit and move toward a balanced budget is to

> encourage economic growth, and to show some spending discipline in

> Washington, D.C. (Applause.)

>

> We must work together to fund only our most important priorities. I will

> send you a budget that increases discretionary spending by 4 percent next

> year -- about as much as the average family's income is expected to grow.

> And that is a good benchmark for us. Federal spending should not rise any

> faster than the paychecks of American families. (Applause.)

>

> A growing economy and a focus on essential priorities will also be crucial

> to the future of Social Security. As we continue to work together to keep

> Social Security sound and reliable, we must offer younger workers a chance

> to invest in retirement accounts that they will control and they will own.

> (Applause.)

>

>

> Our second goal is high quality, affordable health care for all Americans.

> (Applause.) The American system of medicine is a model of skill and

> innovation, with a pace of discovery that is adding good years to our

> lives. Yet for many people, medical care costs too much -- and many have

> no coverage at all. These problems will not be solved with a nationalized

> health care system that dictates coverage and rations care. (Applause.)

> Instead, we must work toward a system in which all Americans have a good

> insurance policy, choose their own doctors, and seniors and low-income

> Americans receive the help they need. (Applause.) Instead of bureaucrats

> and trial lawyers and HMOs, we must put doctors and nurses and patients

> back in charge of American medicine. (Applause.)

>

> Health care reform must begin with Medicare; Medicare is the binding

> commitment of a caring society. (Applause.) We must renew that commitment

> by giving seniors access to preventive medicine and new drugs that are

> transforming health care in America.

>

> Seniors happy with the current Medicare system should be able to keep

> their coverage just the way it is. (Applause.) And just like you -- the

> members of Congress, and your staffs, and other federal employees -- all

> seniors should have the choice of a health care plan that provides

> prescription drugs. (Applause.)

>

> My budget will commit an additional $400 billion over the next decade to

> reform and strengthen Medicare. Leaders of both political parties have

> talked for years about strengthening Medicare. I urge the members of this

> new Congress to act this year. (Applause.)

>

> To improve our health care system, we must address one of the prime causes

> of higher cost, the constant threat that physicians and hospitals will be

> unfairly sued. (Applause.) Because of excessive litigation, everybody pays

> more for health care, and many parts of America are losing fine doctors.

> No one has ever been healed by a frivolous lawsuit. I urge the Congress to

> pass medical liability reform. (Applause.)

>

> Our third goal is to promote energy independence for our country, while

> dramatically improving the environment. (Applause.) I have sent you a

> comprehensive energy plan to promote energy efficiency and conservation,

> to develop cleaner technology, and to produce more energy at home.

> (Applause.) I have sent you Clear Skies legislation that mandates a

> 70-percent cut in air pollution from power plants over the next 15 years.

> (Applause.) I have sent you a Healthy Forests Initiative, to help prevent

> the catastrophic fires that devastate communities, kill wildlife, and burn

> away millions of acres of treasured forest. (Applause.)

>

>

> I urge you to pass these measures, for the good of both our environment

> and our economy. (Applause.) Even more, I ask you to take a crucial step

> and protect our environment in ways that generations before us could not

> have imagined.

> In this century, the greatest environmental progress will come about not

> through endless lawsuits or command-and-control regulations, but through

> technology and innovation. Tonight I'm proposing $1.2 billion in research

> funding so that America can lead the world in developing clean,

> hydrogen-powered automobiles. (Applause.)

>

> A single chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen generates energy,

> which can be used to power a car -- producing only water, not exhaust

> fumes. With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will

> overcome obstacles to taking these cars from laboratory to showroom, so

> that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by

> hydrogen, and pollution-free. (Applause.)

>

> Join me in this important innovation to make our air significantly

> cleaner, and our country much less dependent on foreign sources of energy.

> (Applause.)

>

> Our fourth goal is to apply the compassion of America to the deepest

> problems of America. For so many in our country -- the homeless and the

> fatherless, the addicted -- the need is great. Yet there's power,

> wonder-working power, in the goodness and idealism and faith of the

> American people.

>

> Americans are doing the work of compassion every day -- visiting

> prisoners, providing shelter for battered women, bringing companionship to

> lonely seniors. These good works deserve our praise; they deserve our

> personal support; and when appropriate, they deserve the assistance of the

> federal government. (Applause.)

>

> I urge you to pass both my faith-based initiative and the Citizen Service

> Act, to encourage acts of compassion that can transform America, one heart

> and one soul at a time. (Applause.)

>

> Last year, I called on my fellow citizens to participate in the USA

> Freedom Corps, which is enlisting tens of thousands of new volunteers

> across America. Tonight I ask Congress and the American people to focus

> the spirit of service and the resources of government on the needs of some

> of our most vulnerable citizens -- boys and girls trying to grow up

> without guidance and attention, and children who have to go through a

> prison gate to be hugged by their mom or dad.

>

>

> I propose a $450-million initiative to bring mentors to more than a

> million disadvantaged junior high students and children of prisoners.

> Government will support the training and recruiting of mentors; yet it is

> the men and women of America who will fill the need. One mentor, one

> person can change a life forever. And I urge you to be that one person.

> (Applause.)

> Another cause of hopelessness is addiction to drugs. Addiction crowds out

> friendship, ambition, moral conviction, and reduces all the richness of

> life to a single destructive desire. As a government, we are fighting

> illegal drugs by cutting off supplies and reducing demand through

> anti-drug education programs. Yet for those already addicted, the fight

> against drugs is a fight for their own lives. Too many Americans in search

> of treatment cannot get it. So tonight I propose a new $600-million

> program to help an additional 300,000 Americans receive treatment over the

> next three years. (Applause.)

>

> Our nation is blessed with recovery programs that do amazing work. One of

> them is found at the Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A man

> in the program said, "God does miracles in people's lives, and you never

> think it could be you." Tonight, let us bring to all Americans who

> struggle with drug addiction this message of hope: The miracle of recovery

> is possible, and it could be you. (Applause.)

>

> By caring for children who need mentors, and for addicted men and women

> who need treatment, we are building a more welcoming society -- a culture

> that values every life. And in this work we must not overlook the weakest

> among us. I ask you to protect infants at the very hour of their birth and

> end the practice of partial-birth abortion. (Applause.) And because no

> human life should be started or ended as the object of an experiment, I

> ask you to set a high standard for humanity, and pass a law against all

> human cloning. (Applause.)

>

> The qualities of courage and compassion that we strive for in America also

> determine our conduct abroad. The American flag stands for more than our

> power and our interests. Our founders dedicated this country to the cause

> of human dignity, the rights of every person, and the possibilities of

> every life. This conviction leads us into the world to help the afflicted,

> and defend the peace, and confound the designs of evil men.

>

> In Afghanistan, we helped liberate an oppressed people. And we will

> continue helping them secure their country, rebuild their society, and

> educate all their children -- boys and girls. (Applause.) In the Middle

> East, we will continue to seek peace between a secure Israel and a

> democratic Palestine. (Applause.) Across the Earth, America is feeding the

> hungry -- more than 60 percent of international food aid comes as a gift

> from the people of the United States. As our nation moves troops and

> builds alliances to make our world safer, we must also remember our

> calling as a blessed country is to make this world better.

>

> Today, on the continent of Africa, nearly 30 million people have the AIDS

> virus -- including 3 million children under the age 15. There are whole

> countries in Africa where more than one-third of the adult population

> carries the infection. More than 4 million require immediate drug

> treatment. Yet across that continent, only 50,000 AIDS victims -- only

> 50,000 -- are receiving the medicine they need.

>

> Because the AIDS diagnosis is considered a death sentence, many do not

> seek treatment. Almost all who do are turned away. A doctor in rural South

> Africa describes his frustration. He says, "We have no medicines. Many

> hospitals tell people, you've got AIDS, we can't help you. Go home and

> die." In an age of miraculous medicines, no person should have to hear

> those words. (Applause.)

>

> AIDS can be prevented. Anti-retroviral drugs can extend life for many

> years. And the cost of those drugs has dropped from $12,000 a year to

> under $300 a year -- which places a tremendous possibility within our

> grasp. Ladies and gentlemen, seldom has history offered a greater

> opportunity to do so much for so many.

>

> We have confronted, and will continue to confront, HIV/AIDS in our own

> country. And to meet a severe and urgent crisis abroad, tonight I propose

> the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief -- a work of mercy beyond all current

> international efforts to help the people of Africa. This comprehensive

> plan will prevent 7 million new AIDS infections, treat at least 2 million

> people with life-extending drugs, and provide humane care for millions of

> people suffering from AIDS, and for children orphaned by AIDS. (Applause.)

>

> I ask the Congress to commit $15 billion over the next five years,

> including nearly $10 billion in new money, to turn the tide against AIDS

> in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean. (Applause.)

>

> This nation can lead the world in sparing innocent people from a plague of

> nature. And this nation is leading the world in confronting and defeating

> the man-made evil of international terrorism. (Applause.)

>

> There are days when our fellow citizens do not hear news about the war on

> terror. There's never a day when I do not learn of another threat, or

> receive reports of operations in progress, or give an order in this global

> war against a scattered network of killers. The war goes on, and we are

> winning. (Applause.)

>

> To date, we've arrested or otherwise dealt with many key commanders of al

> Qaeda. They include a man who directed logistics and funding for the

> September the 11th attacks; the chief of al Qaeda operations in the

> Persian Gulf, who planned the bombings of our embassies in East Africa and

> the USS Cole; an al Qaeda operations chief from Southeast Asia; a former

> director of al Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan; a key al Qaeda

> operative in Europe; a major al Qaeda leader in Yemen. All told, more than

> 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many

> others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way -- they are no

> longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies.

> (Applause.)

>

> We are working closely with other nations to prevent further attacks.

> America and coalition countries have uncovered and stopped terrorist

> conspiracies targeting the American embassy in Yemen, the American embassy

> in Singapore, a Saudi military base, ships in the Straits of Hormuz and

> the Straits the Gibraltar. We've broken al Qaeda cells in Hamburg, Milan,

> Madrid, London, Paris, as well as, Buffalo, New York.

>

> We have the terrorists on the run. We're keeping them on the run. One by

> one, the terrorists are learning the meaning of American justice.

> (Applause.)

>

> As we fight this war, we will remember where it began -- here, in our own

> country. This government is taking unprecedented measures to protect our

> people and defend our homeland. We've intensified security at the borders

> and ports of entry, posted more than 50,000 newly-trained federal

> screeners in airports, begun inoculating troops and first responders

> against smallpox, and are deploying the nation's first early warning

> network of sensors to detect biological attack. And this year, for the

> first time, we are beginning to field a defense to protect this nation

> against ballistic missiles. (Applause.)

>

> I thank the Congress for supporting these measures. I ask you tonight to

> add to our future security with a major research and production effort to

> guard our people against bioterrorism, called Project Bioshield. The

> budget I send you will propose almost $6 billion to quickly make available

> effective vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum

> toxin, Ebola, and plague. We must assume that our enemies would use these

> diseases as weapons, and we must act before the dangers are upon us.

> (Applause.)

>

> Since September the 11th, our intelligence and law enforcement agencies

> have worked more closely than ever to track and disrupt the terrorists.

> The FBI is improving its ability to analyze intelligence, and is

> transforming itself to meet new threats. Tonight, I am instructing the

> leaders of the FBI, the CIA, the Homeland Security, and the Department of

> Defense to develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and

> analyze all threat information in a single location. Our government must

> have the very best information possible, and we will use it to make sure

> the right people are in the right places to protect all our citizens.

> (Applause.)

>

> Our war against terror is a contest of will in which perseverance is

> power. In the ruins of two towers, at the western wall of the Pentagon, on

> a field in Pennsylvania, this nation made a pledge, and we renew that

> pledge tonight: Whatever the duration of this struggle, and whatever the

> difficulties, we will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of

> men -- free people will set the course of history. (Applause.)

>

> Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing

> America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear,

> chemical, and biological weapons. These regimes could use such weapons for

> blackmail, terror, and mass murder. They could also give or sell those

> weapons to terrorist allies, who would use them without the least

> hesitation.

>

> This threat is new; America's duty is familiar. Throughout the 20th

> century, small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies

> and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world.

> In each case, their ambitions of cruelty and murder had no limit. In each

> case, the ambitions of Hitlerism, militarism, and communism were defeated

> by the will of free peoples, by the strength of great alliances, and by

> the might of the United States of America. (Applause.)

>

> Now, in this century, the ideology of power and domination has appeared

> again, and seeks to gain the ultimate weapons of terror. Once again, this

> nation and all our friends are all that stand between a world at peace,

> and a world of chaos and constant alarm. Once again, we are called to

> defend the safety of our people, and the hopes of all mankind. And we

> accept this responsibility. (Applause.)

>

> America is making a broad and determined effort to confront these dangers.

> We have called on the United Nations to fulfill its charter and stand by

> its demand that Iraq disarm. We're strongly supporting the International

> Atomic Energy Agency in its mission to track and control nuclear materials

> around the world. We're working with other governments to secure nuclear

> materials in the former Soviet Union, and to strengthen global treaties

> banning the production and shipment of missile technologies and weapons of

> mass destruction.

>

> In all these efforts, however, America's purpose is more than to follow a

> process -- it is to achieve a result: the end of terrible threats to the

> civilized world. All free nations have a stake in preventing sudden and

> catastrophic attacks. And we're asking them to join us, and many are doing

> so. Yet the course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of

> others. (Applause.) Whatever action is required, whenever action is

> necessary, I will defend the freedom and security of the American people.

> (Applause.)

>

> Different threats require different strategies. In Iran, we continue to

> see a government that represses its people, pursues weapons of mass

> destruction, and supports terror. We also see Iranian citizens risking

> intimidation and death as they speak out for liberty and human rights and

> democracy. Iranians, like all people, have a right to choose their own

> government and determine their own destiny -- and the United States

> supports their aspirations to live in freedom. (Applause.)

>

> On the Korean Peninsula, an oppressive regime rules a people living in

> fear and starvation. Throughout the 1990s, the United States relied on a

> negotiated framework to keep North Korea from gaining nuclear weapons. We

> now know that that regime was deceiving the world, and developing those

> weapons all along. And today the North Korean regime is using its nuclear

> program to incite fear and seek concessions. America and the world will

> not be blackmailed. (Applause.)

>

> America is working with the countries of the region -- South Korea, Japan,

> China, and Russia -- to find a peaceful solution, and to show the North

> Korean government that nuclear weapons will bring only isolation, economic

> stagnation, and continued hardship. (Applause.) The North Korean regime

> will find respect in the world and revival for its people only when it

> turns away from its nuclear ambitions. (Applause.)

>

> Our nation and the world must learn the lessons of the Korean Peninsula

> and not allow an even greater threat to rise up in Iraq. A brutal

> dictator, with a history of reckless aggression, with ties to terrorism,

> with great potential wealth, will not be permitted to dominate a vital

> region and threaten the United States. (Applause.)

>

> Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last

> casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to

> disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next 12 years, he

> systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical, biological,

> and nuclear weapons, even while inspectors were in his country. Nothing to

> date has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons -- not economic

> sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise missile

> strikes on his military facilities.

>

> Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave Saddam

> Hussein his final chance to disarm. He has shown instead utter contempt

> for the United Nations, and for the opinion of the world. The 108 U.N.

> inspectors were sent to conduct -- were not sent to conduct a scavenger

> hunt for hidden materials across a country the size of California. The job

> of the inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming. It is up

> to Iraq to show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those

> weapons out for the world to see, and destroy them as directed. Nothing

> like this has happened.

>

> The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological

> weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax -- enough

> doses to kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that

> material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

>

> The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient

> to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin -- enough to subject

> millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He hadn't accounted

> for that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

>

> Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials

> to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In

> such quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands.

> He's not accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he

> has destroyed them.

>

> U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000

> munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently

> turned up 16 of them -- despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their

> existence. Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of

> these prohibited munitions. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed

> them.

>

> From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had

> several mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ

> warfare agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade

> inspectors. Saddam Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He's given

> no evidence that he has destroyed them.

>

> The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam

> Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design

> for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of

> enriching uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that

> Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from

> Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase

> high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.

> Saddam Hussein has not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has

> much to hide.

>

> The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. To the contrary; he is deceiving.

> From intelligence sources we know, for instance, that thousands of Iraqi

> security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the

> U.N. inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors

> themselves. Iraqi officials accompany the inspectors in order to

> intimidate witnesses.

>

> Iraq is blocking U-2 surveillance flights requested by the United Nations.

> Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors are

> supposed to interview. Real scientists have been coached by Iraqi

> officials on what to say. Intelligence sources indicate that Saddam

> Hussein has ordered that scientists who cooperate with U.N. inspectors in

> disarming Iraq will be killed, along with their families.

>

> Year after year, Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent

> enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass

> destruction. But why? The only possible explanation, the only possible use

> he could have for those weapons, is to dominate, intimidate, or attack.

>

> With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological weapons,

> Saddam Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle East

> and create deadly havoc in that region. And this Congress and the America

> people must recognize another threat. Evidence from intelligence sources,

> secret communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that

> Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al

> Qaeda. Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his

> hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.

>

> Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein

> could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy

> terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers

> with other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein.

> It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country

> to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do

> everything in our power to make sure that that day never comes.

> (Applause.)

>

> Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when

> have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting

> us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and

> suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come

> too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a

> strategy, and it is not an option. (Applause.)

>

> The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has

> already used them on whole villages -- leaving thousands of his own

> citizens dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced

> confessions are obtained -- by torturing children while their parents are

> made to watch. International human rights groups have catalogued other

> methods used in the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with

> hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills,

> cutting out tongues, and rape. If this is not evil, then evil has no

> meaning. (Applause.)

>

> And tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq:

> Your enemy is not surrounding your country -- your enemy is ruling your

> country. (Applause.) And the day he and his regime are removed from power

> will be the day of your liberation. (Applause.)

>

> The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. America will not accept

> a serious and mounting threat to our country, and our friends and our

> allies. The United States will ask the U.N. Security Council to convene on

> February the 5th to consider the facts of Iraq's ongoing defiance of the

> world. Secretary of State Powell will present information and intelligence

> about Iraqi's legal -- Iraq's illegal weapons programs, its attempt to

> hide those weapons from inspectors, and its links to terrorist groups.

>

> We will consult. But let there be no misunderstanding: If Saddam Hussein

> does not fully disarm, for the safety of our people and for the peace of

> the world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him. (Applause.)

>

> Tonight I have a message for the men and women who will keep the peace,

> members of the American Armed Forces: Many of you are assembling in or

> near the Middle East, and some crucial hours may lay ahead. In those

> hours, the success of our cause will depend on you. Your training has

> prepared you. Your honor will guide you. You believe in America, and

> America believes in you. (Applause.)

>

> Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President

> can make. The technologies of war have changed; the risks and suffering of

> war have not. For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is

> free from sorrow. This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost

> and we dread the days of mourning that always come.

>

> We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be defended.

> A future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all. If war

> is forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means --

> sparing, in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us,

> we will fight with the full force and might of the United States

> military -- and we will prevail. (Applause.)

>

> And as we and our coalition partners are doing in Afghanistan, we will

> bring to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies -- and freedom.

> (Applause.)

>

> Many challenges, abroad and at home, have arrived in a single season. In

> two years, America has gone from a sense of invulnerability to an

> awareness of peril; from bitter division in small matters to calm unity in

> great causes. And we go forward with confidence, because this call of

> history has come to the right country.

>

> Americans are a resolute people who have risen to every test of our time.

> Adversity has revealed the character of our country, to the world and to

> ourselves. America is a strong nation, and honorable in the use of our

> strength. We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for the

> liberty of strangers.

>

> Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every

> person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not

> America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity. (Applause.)

>

> We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do

> not know -- we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can

> trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of

> life, and all of history.

>

> May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of

> America. (Applause.)

>

>

"Sal Video" <dsiv@xis.com> wrote in message

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> Holy shit there's still morons out there that support this fuckwad?

Yep, and Yoyo leads the pack. I think he has a crush on him.

>

>

> "MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

> news:HJEnj.5096$so6.4818@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net...

> > http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

> >

> > THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress,

> > distinguished citizens and fellow citizens: Every year, by law and by

> > custom, we meet here to consider the state of the union. This year, we

> > gather in this chamber deeply aware of decisive days that lie ahead.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:41:46 -0800, "Sal Video"

<dsiv@xis.com> wrote:

>Holy shit there's still morons out there that support this fuckwad?

>

MeShitOhMyownPants likes the smell of sphincter.

"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

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> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

>

> THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress,

> distinguished citizens and fellow citizens: Every year, by law and by

> custom, we meet here to consider the state of the union. This year, we

> gather in this chamber deeply aware of decisive days that lie ahead.

>

> You and I serve our country in a time of great consequence. During this

> session of Congress, we have the duty to reform domestic programs vital

> to

> our country; we have the opportunity to save millions of lives abroad

> from a

> terrible disease. We will work for a prosperity that is broadly shared,

> and

> we will answer every danger and every enemy that threatens the American

> people. (Applause.)

> In all these days of promise and days of reckoning, we can be

> confident. In

> a whirlwind of change and hope and peril, our faith is sure, our

> resolve is

> firm, and our union is strong. (Applause.)

>

> This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore,

> we

> will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other

> presidents,

> and other generations. (Applause.) We will confront them with focus and

> clarity and courage.

>

> During the last two years, we have seen what can be accomplished when

> we

> work together. To lift the standards of our public schools, we achieved

> historic education reform -- which must now be carried out in every

> school

> and in every classroom, so that every child in America can read and

> learn

> and succeed in life. (Applause.) To protect our country, we reorganized

> our

> government and created the Department of Homeland Security, which is

> mobilizing against the threats of a new era. To bring our economy out

> of

> recession, we delivered the largest tax relief in a generation.

> (Applause.)

> To insist on integrity in American business we passed tough reforms,

> and we

> are holding corporate criminals to account. (Applause.)

>

> Some might call this a good record; I call it a good start. Tonight I

> ask

> the House and Senate to join me in the next bold steps to serve our

> fellow

> citizens.

>

> Our first goal is clear: We must have an economy that grows fast enough

> to

> employ every man and woman who seeks a job. (Applause.) After

> recession,

> terrorist attacks, corporate scandals and stock market declines, our

> economy

> is recovering -- yet it's not growing fast enough, or strongly enough.

> With

> unemployment rising, our nation needs more small businesses to open,

> more

> companies to invest and expand, more employers to put up the sign that

> says,

> "Help Wanted." (Applause.)

>

> Jobs are created when the economy grows; the economy grows when

> Americans

> have more money to spend and invest; and the best and fairest way to

> make

> sure Americans have that money is not to tax it away in the first

> place.

> (Applause.)

>

>

> I am proposing that all the income tax reductions set for 2004 and 2006

> be

> made permanent and effective this year. (Applause.) And under my plan,

> as

Damn! talk about the past year tax cut? Americans are dumb.

"Sal Video" <dsiv@xis.com> wrote in message

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> Holy shit there's still morons out there that support this fuckwad?

Pay no attention to the unpatridiot. This KKKrooKKKed lying repugnigoon is

just upset about all the coal Santa left in its stocking (while it was still

wearing them, what a rightard.)

> "MioMyo" <USA_unpatridiot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

> news:HJEnj.5096$so6.4818@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net...

Actually your posting shows the depth of your unconscionable hatred &

intolerance for anyone who dare exercise their freedom of speech which

happens to be different from what you prove is undeniably leftist fascism..

Thanks exposing the left's complete metamorphosis!

"Tom Sr." <tomswiftsr@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> On Jan 29, 7:11 am, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@Somewhere.com> wrote:

>> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

>>

>> THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney,

>> members of Congress, distinguished citizens and fellow

>> citizens...

>

> It shows the depths of MM's moral depravity that he would use the word

> "honorable" to describe President Bush.

>

> -Tom Sr.

>

jr has no understanding of the word honor.

Most Americans have learned of his lack of regard for honor.

Only a handful still support jr.

Even Republican candidates do their best to distance themselves from jr

MioMyo wrote:

> Actually your posting shows the depth of your unconscionable hatred &

> intolerance for anyone who dare exercise their freedom of speech which

> happens to be different from what you prove is undeniably leftist

> fascism..

> Thanks exposing the left's complete metamorphosis!

>

> "Tom Sr." <tomswiftsr@gmail.com> wrote in message

> news:7b643bb3-80dd-4e1f-b999-e891ced7fc86@1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com...

>> On Jan 29, 7:11 am, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@Somewhere.com> wrote:

>>> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

>>>

>>> THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney,

>>> members of Congress, distinguished citizens and fellow

>>> citizens...

>>

>> It shows the depths of MM's moral depravity that he would use the

>> word "honorable" to describe President Bush.

>>

>> -Tom Sr.

"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

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> Actually your posting shows the depth of your unconscionable hatred &

> intolerance for anyone who dare exercise their freedom of speech which

> happens to be different from what you prove is undeniably leftist

fascism..

>

> Thanks exposing the left's complete metamorphosis!

Actually your slavish devotion to this failed, lawless president shows the

depth of your animosity to the USA. Why do you hate America so?

>

> "Tom Sr." <tomswiftsr@gmail.com> wrote in message

> news:7b643bb3-80dd-4e1f-b999-e891ced7fc86@1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com...

> > On Jan 29, 7:11 am, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@Somewhere.com> wrote:

> >> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

> >>

> >> THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney,

> >> members of Congress, distinguished citizens and fellow

> >> citizens...

> >

> > It shows the depths of MM's moral depravity that he would use the word

> > "honorable" to describe President Bush.

> >

> > -Tom Sr.

> >

>

>

As soon as you proclaim your adversary to hate America on the basis of a

different political view, you lose the argument LOSER!

Also, if Bush is a lawless president, then you shouldn't have any problem

impeaching him, but you haven't any convictions to stand up for impeachment

and you've said so much. That's makes you an even a bigger LOSER!

Thirdly, revising the subject line when you blast your opponents for doing

so, makes you a hypocrite and ultimate LOSER, LOSER!

"Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kimmel@rcn.com> wrote in message

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>

> "MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

> news:vm%nj.9777$hI1.5991@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com...

>> Actually your posting shows the depth of your unconscionable hatred &

>> intolerance for anyone who dare exercise their freedom of speech which

>> happens to be different from what you prove is undeniably leftist

> fascism..

>>

>> Thanks exposing the left's complete metamorphosis!

>

> Actually your slavish devotion to this failed, lawless president shows the

> depth of your animosity to the USA. Why do you hate America so?

>

>

>

>>

>> "Tom Sr." <tomswiftsr@gmail.com> wrote in message

>> news:7b643bb3-80dd-4e1f-b999-e891ced7fc86@1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com...

>> > On Jan 29, 7:11 am, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@Somewhere.com> wrote:

>> >> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

>> >>

>> >> THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney,

>> >> members of Congress, distinguished citizens and fellow

>> >> citizens...

>> >

>> > It shows the depths of MM's moral depravity that he would use the word

>> > "honorable" to describe President Bush.

>> >

>> > -Tom Sr.

>> >

>>

>>

>

>

Very few Americans

still support this

president or his

Republican policies.

The few remaining

are usually ignorant dolts.

Most Republican realize

the damage jr has done

to America and the

Republican party.

355 days and he'll be gone.

Meanwhile, since he's a

lame duck, he'll be flying

all over the world at taxpayer

expense in our 747 learning

what he should have known

while he was president.

MioMyo wrote:

> As soon as you proclaim your adversary to hate America on the basis

> of a different political view, you lose the argument LOSER!

>

> Also, if Bush is a lawless president, then you shouldn't have any

> problem impeaching him, but you haven't any convictions to stand up

> for impeachment and you've said so much. That's makes you an even a

> bigger LOSER!

> Thirdly, revising the subject line when you blast your opponents for

> doing so, makes you a hypocrite and ultimate LOSER, LOSER!

>

>

> "Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kimmel@rcn.com> wrote in message

> news:H72dnZPJMZ2VOD3anZ2dnUVZ_hudnZ2d@rcn.net...

>>

>> "MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

>> news:vm%nj.9777$hI1.5991@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com...

>>> Actually your posting shows the depth of your unconscionable hatred

>>> & intolerance for anyone who dare exercise their freedom of speech

>>> which happens to be different from what you prove is undeniably

>>> leftist fascism.. Thanks exposing the left's complete metamorphosis!

>>

>> Actually your slavish devotion to this failed, lawless president

>> shows the depth of your animosity to the USA. Why do you hate

>> America so?

>>>

>>> "Tom Sr." <tomswiftsr@gmail.com> wrote in message

>>> news:7b643bb3-80dd-4e1f-b999-e891ced7fc86@1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com...

>>>> On Jan 29, 7:11 am, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@Somewhere.com> wrote:

>>>>> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

>>>>>

>>>>> THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney,

>>>>> members of Congress, distinguished citizens and fellow

>>>>> citizens...

>>>>

>>>> It shows the depths of MM's moral depravity that he would use the

>>>> word "honorable" to describe President Bush.

>>>>

>>>> -Tom Sr.

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:19:30 GMT, "MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com>

wrote:

>As soon as you proclaim your adversary to hate America on the basis of a

>different political view, you lose the argument LOSER!

>

>Also, if Bush is a lawless president, then you shouldn't have any problem

>impeaching him, but you haven't any convictions to stand up for impeachment

>and you've said so much. That's makes you an even a bigger LOSER!

>

>Thirdly, revising the subject line when you blast your opponents for doing

>so, makes you a hypocrite and ultimate LOSER, LOSER!

Actually I like the term "Lah ha hoos - ha ha her"

Ace Ventura (just guessin on that spelling of course )

>

>

>"Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kimmel@rcn.com> wrote in message

>news:H72dnZPJMZ2VOD3anZ2dnUVZ_hudnZ2d@rcn.net...

>>

>> "MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

>> news:vm%nj.9777$hI1.5991@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com...

>>> Actually your posting shows the depth of your unconscionable hatred &

>>> intolerance for anyone who dare exercise their freedom of speech which

>>> happens to be different from what you prove is undeniably leftist

>> fascism..

>>>

>>> Thanks exposing the left's complete metamorphosis!

>>

>> Actually your slavish devotion to this failed, lawless president shows the

>> depth of your animosity to the USA. Why do you hate America so?

>>

>>

>>

>>>

>>> "Tom Sr." <tomswiftsr@gmail.com> wrote in message

>>> news:7b643bb3-80dd-4e1f-b999-e891ced7fc86@1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com...

>>> > On Jan 29, 7:11 am, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@Somewhere.com> wrote:

>>> >> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

>>> >>

>>> >> THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney,

>>> >> members of Congress, distinguished citizens and fellow

>>> >> citizens...

>>> >

>>> > It shows the depths of MM's moral depravity that he would use the word

>>> > "honorable" to describe President Bush.

>>> >

>>> > -Tom Sr.

>>> >

>>>

>>>

>>

>>

>

"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

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> As soon as you proclaim your adversary to hate America on the basis of a

> different political view, you lose the argument LOSER!

>

> Also, if Bush is a lawless president, then you shouldn't have any problem

> impeaching him, but you haven't any convictions to stand up for

impeachment

> and you've said so much. That's makes you an even a bigger LOSER!

>

> Thirdly, revising the subject line when you blast your opponents for doing

> so, makes you a hypocrite and ultimate LOSER, LOSER!

Poor Yoyo. Everyone hates his loser president, and his one solace is he

gets to imagine himself king of Usenet, telling other people how they can or

cannot reply to his inanities.

>

> "Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kimmel@rcn.com> wrote in message

> news:H72dnZPJMZ2VOD3anZ2dnUVZ_hudnZ2d@rcn.net...

> >

> > "MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

> > news:vm%nj.9777$hI1.5991@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com...

> >> Actually your posting shows the depth of your unconscionable hatred &

> >> intolerance for anyone who dare exercise their freedom of speech which

> >> happens to be different from what you prove is undeniably leftist

> > fascism..

> >>

> >> Thanks exposing the left's complete metamorphosis!

> >

> > Actually your slavish devotion to this failed, lawless president shows

the

> > depth of your animosity to the USA. Why do you hate America so?

> >

> >

> >

> >>

> >> "Tom Sr." <tomswiftsr@gmail.com> wrote in message

> >> news:7b643bb3-80dd-4e1f-b999-e891ced7fc86@1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com...

> >> > On Jan 29, 7:11 am, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@Somewhere.com> wrote:

> >> >> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

> >> >>

> >> >> THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney,

> >> >> members of Congress, distinguished citizens and fellow

> >> >> citizens...

> >> >

> >> > It shows the depths of MM's moral depravity that he would use the

word

> >> > "honorable" to describe President Bush.

> >> >

> >> > -Tom Sr.

> >> >

> >>

> >>

> >

> >

>

>

"fargo116" <fargo116@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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On Jan 30, 7:19 pm, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@Somewhere.com> wrote:

> As soon as you proclaim your adversary to hate America on the basis of a

> different political view, you lose the argument LOSER!

>

> Also, if Bush is a lawless president, then you shouldn't have any problem

> impeaching him, but you haven't any convictions to stand up for

> impeachment

> and you've said so much. That's makes you an even a bigger LOSER!

>

> Thirdly, revising the subject line when you blast your opponents for doing

> so, makes you a hypocrite and ultimate LOSER, LOSER!

<Since you never served in combat does urging others to do so make you

<a LOSER or a HYPOCRITE?

<Unless you went. Did you?

<214 times you've been asked now.

<S. Olson

So Fukgo, serving in combat is your requirement to discuss the Iraq war.

Therefore, by your own standards, you are the biggest PUSSY HYPOCRITE LIB

LOSER yet since you wet your panties at the thought of wearing the uniform.

Congratulation punk!

"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

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>

> "fargo116" <fargo116@yahoo.com> wrote in message

> news:1671f5e5-b174-4229-ab69-2ee8676a0900@v67g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

> On Jan 30, 7:19 pm, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@Somewhere.com> wrote:

> > As soon as you proclaim your adversary to hate America on the basis of a

> > different political view, you lose the argument LOSER!

> >

> > Also, if Bush is a lawless president, then you shouldn't have any

problem

> > impeaching him, but you haven't any convictions to stand up for

> > impeachment

> > and you've said so much. That's makes you an even a bigger LOSER!

> >

> > Thirdly, revising the subject line when you blast your opponents for

doing

> > so, makes you a hypocrite and ultimate LOSER, LOSER!

>

> <Since you never served in combat does urging others to do so make you

> <a LOSER or a HYPOCRITE?

>

> <Unless you went. Did you?

>

> <214 times you've been asked now.

>

> <S. Olson

>

> So Fukgo, serving in combat is your requirement to discuss the Iraq war.

> Therefore, by your own standards, you are the biggest PUSSY HYPOCRITE LIB

> LOSER yet since you wet your panties at the thought of wearing the

uniform.

>

> Congratulation punk!

Why are you so ashamed of your military service? Was it for the other side?

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:18:50 -0800 (PST), genie <margene_d@yahoo.com>

wrote:

>On Jan 31, 12:47

"Starkiller" <NoSpam.SKS_SKanz@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:18:50 -0800 (PST), genie <margene_d@yahoo.com>

> wrote:

>

> >On Jan 31, 12:47 pm, fargo116 <fargo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> >> On Jan 30, 7:19 pm, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@Somewhere.com> wrote:

> >>

> >> > As soon as you proclaim your adversary to hate America on the basis

of a

> >> > different political view, you lose the argument LOSER!

> >>

> >> > Also, if Bush is a lawless president, then you shouldn't have any

problem

> >> > impeaching him, but you haven't any convictions to stand up for

impeachment

> >> > and you've said so much. That's makes you an even a bigger LOSER!

> >>

> >> > Thirdly, revising the subject line when you blast your opponents for

doing

> >> > so, makes you a hypocrite and ultimate LOSER, LOSER!

> >>

> >> Since you never served in combat does urging others to do so make you

> >> a LOSER or a HYPOCRITE?

> >>

> >> Unless you went. Did you?

> >>

> >> 214 times you've been asked now.

> >>

> >> S. Olson

> >

> >Why are you so insistant his opinion is viable depending on being in

> >the military? Clinton was too busy plucking Hillarys unibrow to go in

> >the service, yet he was elected. Being a taxpayer should count for

> >something and have an equal voice, as going to war may affect his

> >children or grandchildren, even if he never served.

>

> Notice that the two top Democratic candidates hae NO military

> experience whatsoever. So by the arguments presented by the left

> neither is qualified to hold the office yes?

Wrong. It means that the standard presented by the rightwingnuts only apply

at their convenience, and not -- as in the case with Bush, Cheney and their

chief cheerleader here, Yoyo -- when inconvenient.

genie wrote:

> On Feb 1, 11:06 am, "Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kim...@rcn.com> wrote:

>> "Starkiller" <NoSpam.SKS_SK...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

>>

>>> Notice that the two top Democratic candidates hae NO military

>>> experience whatsoever. So by the arguments presented by the left

>>> neither is qualified to hold the office yes?

>>

>> Wrong. It means that the standard presented by the rightwingnuts

>> only apply at their convenience, and not -- as in the case with

>> Bush, Cheney and their chief cheerleader here, Yoyo -- when

>> inconvenient.- Hide quoted text -

>>

>> - Show quoted text -

>

> Having prior military service is a good qualification for a

> Presidential wannabe. Clinton was a excellent example of how lack of

> having self control, pride, integrity or empathy can be a detriment

> when you TRUST them to conduct themselves honorably with such a

> position as the Commander in Chief, President of the United States.

Total bullshit.

The results Clinron

achieved managing

our government were

outstanding.

jr, OTOH, having had a

smattering of miltary

experience has proven

himself incompetent

for the job at hand

You actually watched it?

(snicker)

"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

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> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

>

> THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress,

> distinguished citizens and fellow citizens: Every year, by law and by

> custom, we meet here to consider the state of the union. This year, we

> gather in this chamber deeply aware of decisive days that lie ahead.

>

> You and I serve our country in a time of great consequence. During this

> session of Congress, we have the duty to reform domestic programs vital to

> our country; we have the opportunity to save millions of lives abroad from

a

> terrible disease. We will work for a prosperity that is broadly shared,

and

> we will answer every danger and every enemy that threatens the American

> people. (Applause.)

> In all these days of promise and days of reckoning, we can be confident.

In

> a whirlwind of change and hope and peril, our faith is sure, our resolve

is

> firm, and our union is strong. (Applause.)

>

> This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore, we

> will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents,

> and other generations. (Applause.) We will confront them with focus and

> clarity and courage.

>

> During the last two years, we have seen what can be accomplished when we

> work together. To lift the standards of our public schools, we achieved

> historic education reform -- which must now be carried out in every school

> and in every classroom, so that every child in America can read and learn

> and succeed in life. (Applause.) To protect our country, we reorganized

our

> government and created the Department of Homeland Security, which is

> mobilizing against the threats of a new era. To bring our economy out of

> recession, we delivered the largest tax relief in a generation.

(Applause.)

> To insist on integrity in American business we passed tough reforms, and

we

> are holding corporate criminals to account. (Applause.)

>

> Some might call this a good record; I call it a good start. Tonight I ask

> the House and Senate to join me in the next bold steps to serve our fellow

> citizens.

>

> Our first goal is clear: We must have an economy that grows fast enough to

> employ every man and woman who seeks a job. (Applause.) After recession,

> terrorist attacks, corporate scandals and stock market declines, our

economy

> is recovering -- yet it's not growing fast enough, or strongly enough.

With

> unemployment rising, our nation needs more small businesses to open, more

> companies to invest and expand, more employers to put up the sign that

says,

> "Help Wanted." (Applause.)

>

> Jobs are created when the economy grows; the economy grows when Americans

> have more money to spend and invest; and the best and fairest way to make

> sure Americans have that money is not to tax it away in the first place.

> (Applause.)

>

>

> I am proposing that all the income tax reductions set for 2004 and 2006 be

> made permanent and effective this year. (Applause.) And under my plan, as

> soon as I sign the bill, this extra money will start showing up in

workers'

> paychecks. Instead of gradually reducing the marriage penalty, we should

do

> it now. (Applause.) Instead of slowly raising the child credit to $1,000,

we

> should send the checks to American families now. (Applause.)

> The tax relief is for everyone who pays income taxes -- and it will help

our

> economy immediately: 92 million Americans will keep, this year, an average

> of almost $1,000 more of their own money. A family of four with an income

of

> $40,000 would see their federal income taxes fall from $1,178 to $45 per

> year. (Applause.) Our plan will improve the bottom line for more than 23

> million small businesses.

>

> You, the Congress, have already passed all these reductions, and promised

> them for future years. If this tax relief is good for Americans three, or

> five, or seven years from now, it is even better for Americans today.

> (Applause.)

>

> We should also strengthen the economy by treating investors equally in our

> tax laws. It's fair to tax a company's profits. It is not fair to again

tax

> the shareholder on the same profits. (Applause.) To boost investor

> confidence, and to help the nearly 10 million senior who receive dividend

> income, I ask you to end the unfair double taxation of dividends.

> (Applause.)

>

> Lower taxes and greater investment will help this economy expand. More

jobs

> mean more taxpayers, and higher revenues to our government. The best way

to

> address the deficit and move toward a balanced budget is to encourage

> economic growth, and to show some spending discipline in Washington, D.C.

> (Applause.)

>

> We must work together to fund only our most important priorities. I will

> send you a budget that increases discretionary spending by 4 percent next

> year -- about as much as the average family's income is expected to grow.

> And that is a good benchmark for us. Federal spending should not rise any

> faster than the paychecks of American families. (Applause.)

>

> A growing economy and a focus on essential priorities will also be crucial

> to the future of Social Security. As we continue to work together to keep

> Social Security sound and reliable, we must offer younger workers a chance

> to invest in retirement accounts that they will control and they will own.

> (Applause.)

>

>

> Our second goal is high quality, affordable health care for all Americans.

> (Applause.) The American system of medicine is a model of skill and

> innovation, with a pace of discovery that is adding good years to our

lives.

> Yet for many people, medical care costs too much -- and many have no

> coverage at all. These problems will not be solved with a nationalized

> health care system that dictates coverage and rations care. (Applause.)

> Instead, we must work toward a system in which all Americans have a good

> insurance policy, choose their own doctors, and seniors and low-income

> Americans receive the help they need. (Applause.) Instead of bureaucrats

and

> trial lawyers and HMOs, we must put doctors and nurses and patients back

in

> charge of American medicine. (Applause.)

>

> Health care reform must begin with Medicare; Medicare is the binding

> commitment of a caring society. (Applause.) We must renew that commitment

by

> giving seniors access to preventive medicine and new drugs that are

> transforming health care in America.

>

> Seniors happy with the current Medicare system should be able to keep

their

> coverage just the way it is. (Applause.) And just like you -- the members

of

> Congress, and your staffs, and other federal employees -- all seniors

should

> have the choice of a health care plan that provides prescription drugs.

> (Applause.)

>

> My budget will commit an additional $400 billion over the next decade to

> reform and strengthen Medicare. Leaders of both political parties have

> talked for years about strengthening Medicare. I urge the members of this

> new Congress to act this year. (Applause.)

>

> To improve our health care system, we must address one of the prime causes

> of higher cost, the constant threat that physicians and hospitals will be

> unfairly sued. (Applause.) Because of excessive litigation, everybody pays

> more for health care, and many parts of America are losing fine doctors.

No

> one has ever been healed by a frivolous lawsuit. I urge the Congress to

pass

> medical liability reform. (Applause.)

>

> Our third goal is to promote energy independence for our country, while

> dramatically improving the environment. (Applause.) I have sent you a

> comprehensive energy plan to promote energy efficiency and conservation,

to

> develop cleaner technology, and to produce more energy at home.

(Applause.)

> I have sent you Clear Skies legislation that mandates a 70-percent cut in

> air pollution from power plants over the next 15 years. (Applause.) I have

> sent you a Healthy Forests Initiative, to help prevent the catastrophic

> fires that devastate communities, kill wildlife, and burn away millions of

> acres of treasured forest. (Applause.)

>

>

> I urge you to pass these measures, for the good of both our environment

and

> our economy. (Applause.) Even more, I ask you to take a crucial step and

> protect our environment in ways that generations before us could not have

> imagined.

> In this century, the greatest environmental progress will come about not

> through endless lawsuits or command-and-control regulations, but through

> technology and innovation. Tonight I'm proposing $1.2 billion in research

> funding so that America can lead the world in developing clean,

> hydrogen-powered automobiles. (Applause.)

>

> A single chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen generates energy,

> which can be used to power a car -- producing only water, not exhaust

fumes.

> With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome

> obstacles to taking these cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the

> first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and

> pollution-free. (Applause.)

>

> Join me in this important innovation to make our air significantly

cleaner,

> and our country much less dependent on foreign sources of energy.

> (Applause.)

>

> Our fourth goal is to apply the compassion of America to the deepest

> problems of America. For so many in our country -- the homeless and the

> fatherless, the addicted -- the need is great. Yet there's power,

> wonder-working power, in the goodness and idealism and faith of the

American

> people.

>

> Americans are doing the work of compassion every day -- visiting

prisoners,

> providing shelter for battered women, bringing companionship to lonely

> seniors. These good works deserve our praise; they deserve our personal

> support; and when appropriate, they deserve the assistance of the federal

> government. (Applause.)

>

> I urge you to pass both my faith-based initiative and the Citizen Service

> Act, to encourage acts of compassion that can transform America, one heart

> and one soul at a time. (Applause.)

>

> Last year, I called on my fellow citizens to participate in the USA

Freedom

> Corps, which is enlisting tens of thousands of new volunteers across

> America. Tonight I ask Congress and the American people to focus the

spirit

> of service and the resources of government on the needs of some of our

most

> vulnerable citizens -- boys and girls trying to grow up without guidance

and

> attention, and children who have to go through a prison gate to be hugged

by

> their mom or dad.

>

>

> I propose a $450-million initiative to bring mentors to more than a

million

> disadvantaged junior high students and children of prisoners. Government

> will support the training and recruiting of mentors; yet it is the men and

> women of America who will fill the need. One mentor, one person can change

a

> life forever. And I urge you to be that one person. (Applause.)

> Another cause of hopelessness is addiction to drugs. Addiction crowds out

> friendship, ambition, moral conviction, and reduces all the richness of

life

> to a single destructive desire. As a government, we are fighting illegal

> drugs by cutting off supplies and reducing demand through anti-drug

> education programs. Yet for those already addicted, the fight against

drugs

> is a fight for their own lives. Too many Americans in search of treatment

> cannot get it. So tonight I propose a new $600-million program to help an

> additional 300,000 Americans receive treatment over the next three years.

> (Applause.)

>

> Our nation is blessed with recovery programs that do amazing work. One of

> them is found at the Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A man

> in the program said, "God does miracles in people's lives, and you never

> think it could be you." Tonight, let us bring to all Americans who

struggle

> with drug addiction this message of hope: The miracle of recovery is

> possible, and it could be you. (Applause.)

>

> By caring for children who need mentors, and for addicted men and women

who

> need treatment, we are building a more welcoming society -- a culture that

> values every life. And in this work we must not overlook the weakest among

> us. I ask you to protect infants at the very hour of their birth and end

the

> practice of partial-birth abortion. (Applause.) And because no human life

> should be started or ended as the object of an experiment, I ask you to

set

> a high standard for humanity, and pass a law against all human cloning.

> (Applause.)

>

> The qualities of courage and compassion that we strive for in America also

> determine our conduct abroad. The American flag stands for more than our

> power and our interests. Our founders dedicated this country to the cause

of

> human dignity, the rights of every person, and the possibilities of every

> life. This conviction leads us into the world to help the afflicted, and

> defend the peace, and confound the designs of evil men.

>

> In Afghanistan, we helped liberate an oppressed people. And we will

continue

> helping them secure their country, rebuild their society, and educate all

> their children -- boys and girls. (Applause.) In the Middle East, we will

> continue to seek peace between a secure Israel and a democratic Palestine.

> (Applause.) Across the Earth, America is feeding the hungry -- more than

60

> percent of international food aid comes as a gift from the people of the

> United States. As our nation moves troops and builds alliances to make our

> world safer, we must also remember our calling as a blessed country is to

> make this world better.

>

> Today, on the continent of Africa, nearly 30 million people have the AIDS

> virus -- including 3 million children under the age 15. There are whole

> countries in Africa where more than one-third of the adult population

> carries the infection. More than 4 million require immediate drug

treatment.

> Yet across that continent, only 50,000 AIDS victims -- only 50,000 -- are

> receiving the medicine they need.

>

> Because the AIDS diagnosis is considered a death sentence, many do not

seek

> treatment. Almost all who do are turned away. A doctor in rural South

Africa

> describes his frustration. He says, "We have no medicines. Many hospitals

> tell people, you've got AIDS, we can't help you. Go home and die." In an

age

> of miraculous medicines, no person should have to hear those words.

> (Applause.)

>

> AIDS can be prevented. Anti-retroviral drugs can extend life for many

years.

> And the cost of those drugs has dropped from $12,000 a year to under $300

a

> year -- which places a tremendous possibility within our grasp. Ladies and

> gentlemen, seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much

> for so many.

>

> We have confronted, and will continue to confront, HIV/AIDS in our own

> country. And to meet a severe and urgent crisis abroad, tonight I propose

> the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief -- a work of mercy beyond all current

> international efforts to help the people of Africa. This comprehensive

plan

> will prevent 7 million new AIDS infections, treat at least 2 million

people

> with life-extending drugs, and provide humane care for millions of people

> suffering from AIDS, and for children orphaned by AIDS. (Applause.)

>

> I ask the Congress to commit $15 billion over the next five years,

including

> nearly $10 billion in new money, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most

> afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean. (Applause.)

>

> This nation can lead the world in sparing innocent people from a plague of

> nature. And this nation is leading the world in confronting and defeating

> the man-made evil of international terrorism. (Applause.)

>

> There are days when our fellow citizens do not hear news about the war on

> terror. There's never a day when I do not learn of another threat, or

> receive reports of operations in progress, or give an order in this global

> war against a scattered network of killers. The war goes on, and we are

> winning. (Applause.)

>

> To date, we've arrested or otherwise dealt with many key commanders of al

> Qaeda. They include a man who directed logistics and funding for the

> September the 11th attacks; the chief of al Qaeda operations in the

Persian

> Gulf, who planned the bombings of our embassies in East Africa and the USS

> Cole; an al Qaeda operations chief from Southeast Asia; a former director

of

> al Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan; a key al Qaeda operative in

> Europe; a major al Qaeda leader in Yemen. All told, more than 3,000

> suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others

have

> met a different fate. Let's put it this way -- they are no longer a

problem

> to the United States and our friends and allies. (Applause.)

>

> We are working closely with other nations to prevent further attacks.

> America and coalition countries have uncovered and stopped terrorist

> conspiracies targeting the American embassy in Yemen, the American embassy

> in Singapore, a Saudi military base, ships in the Straits of Hormuz and

the

> Straits the Gibraltar. We've broken al Qaeda cells in Hamburg, Milan,

> Madrid, London, Paris, as well as, Buffalo, New York.

>

> We have the terrorists on the run. We're keeping them on the run. One by

> one, the terrorists are learning the meaning of American justice.

> (Applause.)

>

> As we fight this war, we will remember where it began -- here, in our own

> country. This government is taking unprecedented measures to protect our

> people and defend our homeland. We've intensified security at the borders

> and ports of entry, posted more than 50,000 newly-trained federal

screeners

> in airports, begun inoculating troops and first responders against

smallpox,

> and are deploying the nation's first early warning network of sensors to

> detect biological attack. And this year, for the first time, we are

> beginning to field a defense to protect this nation against ballistic

> missiles. (Applause.)

>

> I thank the Congress for supporting these measures. I ask you tonight to

add

> to our future security with a major research and production effort to

guard

> our people against bioterrorism, called Project Bioshield. The budget I

send

> you will propose almost $6 billion to quickly make available effective

> vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin,

Ebola,

> and plague. We must assume that our enemies would use these diseases as

> weapons, and we must act before the dangers are upon us. (Applause.)

>

> Since September the 11th, our intelligence and law enforcement agencies

have

> worked more closely than ever to track and disrupt the terrorists. The FBI

> is improving its ability to analyze intelligence, and is transforming

itself

> to meet new threats. Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, the

> CIA, the Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to develop a

> Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat

> information in a single location. Our government must have the very best

> information possible, and we will use it to make sure the right people are

> in the right places to protect all our citizens. (Applause.)

>

> Our war against terror is a contest of will in which perseverance is

power.

> In the ruins of two towers, at the western wall of the Pentagon, on a

field

> in Pennsylvania, this nation made a pledge, and we renew that pledge

> tonight: Whatever the duration of this struggle, and whatever the

> difficulties, we will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of

> men -- free people will set the course of history. (Applause.)

>

> Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing

> America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear,

> chemical, and biological weapons. These regimes could use such weapons for

> blackmail, terror, and mass murder. They could also give or sell those

> weapons to terrorist allies, who would use them without the least

> hesitation.

>

> This threat is new; America's duty is familiar. Throughout the 20th

century,

> small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and

> arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world. In

each

> case, their ambitions of cruelty and murder had no limit. In each case,

the

> ambitions of Hitlerism, militarism, and communism were defeated by the

will

> of free peoples, by the strength of great alliances, and by the might of

the

> United States of America. (Applause.)

>

> Now, in this century, the ideology of power and domination has appeared

> again, and seeks to gain the ultimate weapons of terror. Once again, this

> nation and all our friends are all that stand between a world at peace,

and

> a world of chaos and constant alarm. Once again, we are called to defend

the

> safety of our people, and the hopes of all mankind. And we accept this

> responsibility. (Applause.)

>

> America is making a broad and determined effort to confront these dangers.

> We have called on the United Nations to fulfill its charter and stand by

its

> demand that Iraq disarm. We're strongly supporting the International

Atomic

> Energy Agency in its mission to track and control nuclear materials around

> the world. We're working with other governments to secure nuclear

materials

> in the former Soviet Union, and to strengthen global treaties banning the

> production and shipment of missile technologies and weapons of mass

> destruction.

>

> In all these efforts, however, America's purpose is more than to follow a

> process -- it is to achieve a result: the end of terrible threats to the

> civilized world. All free nations have a stake in preventing sudden and

> catastrophic attacks. And we're asking them to join us, and many are doing

> so. Yet the course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of

> others. (Applause.) Whatever action is required, whenever action is

> necessary, I will defend the freedom and security of the American people.

> (Applause.)

>

> Different threats require different strategies. In Iran, we continue to

see

> a government that represses its people, pursues weapons of mass

destruction,

> and supports terror. We also see Iranian citizens risking intimidation and

> death as they speak out for liberty and human rights and democracy.

> Iranians, like all people, have a right to choose their own government and

> determine their own destiny -- and the United States supports their

> aspirations to live in freedom. (Applause.)

>

> On the Korean Peninsula, an oppressive regime rules a people living in

fear

> and starvation. Throughout the 1990s, the United States relied on a

> negotiated framework to keep North Korea from gaining nuclear weapons. We

> now know that that regime was deceiving the world, and developing those

> weapons all along. And today the North Korean regime is using its nuclear

> program to incite fear and seek concessions. America and the world will

not

> be blackmailed. (Applause.)

>

> America is working with the countries of the region -- South Korea, Japan,

> China, and Russia -- to find a peaceful solution, and to show the North

> Korean government that nuclear weapons will bring only isolation, economic

> stagnation, and continued hardship. (Applause.) The North Korean regime

will

> find respect in the world and revival for its people only when it turns

away

> from its nuclear ambitions. (Applause.)

>

> Our nation and the world must learn the lessons of the Korean Peninsula

and

> not allow an even greater threat to rise up in Iraq. A brutal dictator,

with

> a history of reckless aggression, with ties to terrorism, with great

> potential wealth, will not be permitted to dominate a vital region and

> threaten the United States. (Applause.)

>

> Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last

> casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to

> disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next 12 years, he

> systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical, biological,

and

> nuclear weapons, even while inspectors were in his country. Nothing to

date

> has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons -- not economic

> sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise missile

> strikes on his military facilities.

>

> Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave Saddam

> Hussein his final chance to disarm. He has shown instead utter contempt

for

> the United Nations, and for the opinion of the world. The 108 U.N.

> inspectors were sent to conduct -- were not sent to conduct a scavenger

hunt

> for hidden materials across a country the size of California. The job of

the

> inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming. It is up to Iraq

to

> show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those weapons out

> for the world to see, and destroy them as directed. Nothing like this has

> happened.

>

> The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological

> weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax -- enough

doses

> to kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that material.

He's

> given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

>

> The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient

to

> produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin -- enough to subject

> millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He hadn't accounted

for

> that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

>

> Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials

to

> produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such

> quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands. He's

not

> accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has

> destroyed them.

>

> U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000

> munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently

turned

> up 16 of them -- despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their

existence.

> Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these

> prohibited munitions. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed them.

>

> From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had

several

> mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ warfare

> agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors. Saddam

> Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He's given no evidence that he

> has destroyed them.

>

> The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam

> Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design

> for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of

enriching

> uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein

> recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our

> intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase

high-strength

> aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam Hussein has

> not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide.

>

> The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. To the contrary; he is deceiving.

> From intelligence sources we know, for instance, that thousands of Iraqi

> security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the

U.N.

> inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors

> themselves. Iraqi officials accompany the inspectors in order to

intimidate

> witnesses.

>

> Iraq is blocking U-2 surveillance flights requested by the United Nations.

> Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors are

> supposed to interview. Real scientists have been coached by Iraqi

officials

> on what to say. Intelligence sources indicate that Saddam Hussein has

> ordered that scientists who cooperate with U.N. inspectors in disarming

Iraq

> will be killed, along with their families.

>

> Year after year, Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent

> enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass

> destruction. But why? The only possible explanation, the only possible use

> he could have for those weapons, is to dominate, intimidate, or attack.

>

> With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological weapons,

> Saddam Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle East

and

> create deadly havoc in that region. And this Congress and the America

people

> must recognize another threat. Evidence from intelligence sources, secret

> communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam

> Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda.

> Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden

> weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.

>

> Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein

> could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy

> terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers

with

> other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It

would

> take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring

a

> day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in our

> power to make sure that that day never comes. (Applause.)

>

> Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when

have

> terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on

> notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and

suddenly

> emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too

late.

> Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy,

> and it is not an option. (Applause.)

>

> The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has

> already used them on whole villages -- leaving thousands of his own

citizens

> dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions

> are obtained -- by torturing children while their parents are made to

watch.

> International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used in

the

> torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping

> acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues,

and

> rape. If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning. (Applause.)

>

> And tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq:

> Your enemy is not surrounding your country -- your enemy is ruling your

> country. (Applause.) And the day he and his regime are removed from power

> will be the day of your liberation. (Applause.)

>

> The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. America will not accept

a

> serious and mounting threat to our country, and our friends and our

allies.

> The United States will ask the U.N. Security Council to convene on

February

> the 5th to consider the facts of Iraq's ongoing defiance of the world.

> Secretary of State Powell will present information and intelligence about

> Iraqi's legal -- Iraq's illegal weapons programs, its attempt to hide

those

> weapons from inspectors, and its links to terrorist groups.

>

> We will consult. But let there be no misunderstanding: If Saddam Hussein

> does not fully disarm, for the safety of our people and for the peace of

the

> world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him. (Applause.)

>

> Tonight I have a message for the men and women who will keep the peace,

> members of the American Armed Forces: Many of you are assembling in or

near

> the Middle East, and some crucial hours may lay ahead. In those hours, the

> success of our cause will depend on you. Your training has prepared you.

> Your honor will guide you. You believe in America, and America believes in

> you. (Applause.)

>

> Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President

can

> make. The technologies of war have changed; the risks and suffering of war

> have not. For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is free

from

> sorrow. This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost and we

> dread the days of mourning that always come.

>

> We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be defended.

A

> future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all. If war

is

> forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means --

sparing,

> in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us, we will

> fight with the full force and might of the United States military -- and

we

> will prevail. (Applause.)

>

> And as we and our coalition partners are doing in Afghanistan, we will

bring

> to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies -- and freedom.

> (Applause.)

>

> Many challenges, abroad and at home, have arrived in a single season. In

two

> years, America has gone from a sense of invulnerability to an awareness of

> peril; from bitter division in small matters to calm unity in great

causes.

> And we go forward with confidence, because this call of history has come

to

> the right country.

>

> Americans are a resolute people who have risen to every test of our time.

> Adversity has revealed the character of our country, to the world and to

> ourselves. America is a strong nation, and honorable in the use of our

> strength. We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for the

> liberty of strangers.

>

> Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every

> person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not

America's

> gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity. (Applause.)

>

> We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do

not

> know -- we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can

trust

> in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and

> all of history.

>

> May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of

> America. (Applause.)

>

>

Wearing the uniform means nothing.

"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

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>

> "fargo116" <fargo116@yahoo.com> wrote in message

> news:1671f5e5-b174-4229-ab69-2ee8676a0900@v67g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

> On Jan 30, 7:19 pm, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@Somewhere.com> wrote:

> > As soon as you proclaim your adversary to hate America on the basis of a

> > different political view, you lose the argument LOSER!

> >

> > Also, if Bush is a lawless president, then you shouldn't have any

problem

> > impeaching him, but you haven't any convictions to stand up for

> > impeachment

> > and you've said so much. That's makes you an even a bigger LOSER!

> >

> > Thirdly, revising the subject line when you blast your opponents for

doing

> > so, makes you a hypocrite and ultimate LOSER, LOSER!

>

> <Since you never served in combat does urging others to do so make you

> <a LOSER or a HYPOCRITE?

>

> <Unless you went. Did you?

>

> <214 times you've been asked now.

>

> <S. Olson

>

> So Fukgo, serving in combat is your requirement to discuss the Iraq war.

> Therefore, by your own standards, you are the biggest PUSSY HYPOCRITE LIB

> LOSER yet since you wet your panties at the thought of wearing the

uniform.

>

> Congratulation punk!

>

>

"genie" <margene_d@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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On Feb 1, 11:06 am, "Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kim...@rcn.com> wrote:

> "Starkiller" <NoSpam.SKS_SK...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

>

> > Notice that the two top Democratic candidates hae NO military

> > experience whatsoever. So by the arguments presented by the left

> > neither is qualified to hold the office yes?

>

> Wrong. It means that the standard presented by the rightwingnuts only

apply

> at their convenience, and not -- as in the case with Bush, Cheney and

their

> chief cheerleader here, Yoyo -- when inconvenient.- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -

Having prior military service is a good qualification for a

Presidential wannabe. Clinton was a excellent example of how lack of

having self control, pride, integrity or empathy can be a detriment

when you TRUST them to conduct themselves honorably with such a

position as the Commander in Chief, President of the United States.

Nixon and Bush Sr. both had military service. Didn't make them great

presidents.

Bush Jr. was a draft dodger who couldn't even complete his stateside

service. That did speak volumes about him.

Actually spending time prior to elective office working for the people -- as

Clinton and Obama have done -- is a good thing. What did Romney do beside

line his pockets? McCain has a good excuse for having done nothing, as he

was a POW, but upon his return what did he do? Other than being one of the

Keating Five that is.

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:05:59 -0500, "Dan Kimmel"

<daniel.kimmel@rcn.com> wrote:

>

>"genie" <margene_d@yahoo.com> wrote in message

>news:0cf542ef-3a8b-4d7d-9cb6-bb2464ca44ff@q39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

>On Feb 1, 11:06 am, "Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kim...@rcn.com> wrote:

>> "Starkiller" <NoSpam.SKS_SK...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

>>

>> > Notice that the two top Democratic candidates hae NO military

>> > experience whatsoever. So by the arguments presented by the left

>> > neither is qualified to hold the office yes?

>>

>> Wrong. It means that the standard presented by the rightwingnuts only

>apply

>> at their convenience, and not -- as in the case with Bush, Cheney and

>their

>> chief cheerleader here, Yoyo -- when inconvenient.- Hide quoted text -

>>

>> - Show quoted text -

>

>Having prior military service is a good qualification for a

>Presidential wannabe. Clinton was a excellent example of how lack of

>having self control, pride, integrity or empathy can be a detriment

>when you TRUST them to conduct themselves honorably with such a

>position as the Commander in Chief, President of the United States.

>

>

>Nixon and Bush Sr. both had military service. Didn't make them great

>presidents.

>

>Bush Jr. was a draft dodger who couldn't even complete his stateside

>service. That did speak volumes about him.

>

>Actually spending time prior to elective office working for the people -- as

>Clinton and Obama have done -- is a good thing. What did Romney do beside

>line his pockets? McCain has a good excuse for having done nothing, as he

>was a POW, but upon his return what did he do? Other than being one of the

>Keating Five that is.

>

>

So basically it NEVER was a real issue with any of you other than

using it as talking points. Thanks for clearing that up.

"Starkiller" <NoSpam.SKS_SKanz@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:05:59 -0500, "Dan Kimmel"

> <daniel.kimmel@rcn.com> wrote:

>

> >

> >"genie" <margene_d@yahoo.com> wrote in message

> >news:0cf542ef-3a8b-4d7d-9cb6-bb2464ca44ff@q39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

> >On Feb 1, 11:06 am, "Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kim...@rcn.com> wrote:

> >> "Starkiller" <NoSpam.SKS_SK...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> >>

> >> > Notice that the two top Democratic candidates hae NO military

> >> > experience whatsoever. So by the arguments presented by the left

> >> > neither is qualified to hold the office yes?

> >>

> >> Wrong. It means that the standard presented by the rightwingnuts only

> >apply

> >> at their convenience, and not -- as in the case with Bush, Cheney and

> >their

> >> chief cheerleader here, Yoyo -- when inconvenient.- Hide quoted text -

> >>

> >> - Show quoted text -

> >

> >Having prior military service is a good qualification for a

> >Presidential wannabe. Clinton was a excellent example of how lack of

> >having self control, pride, integrity or empathy can be a detriment

> >when you TRUST them to conduct themselves honorably with such a

> >position as the Commander in Chief, President of the United States.

> >

> >

> >Nixon and Bush Sr. both had military service. Didn't make them great

> >presidents.

> >

> >Bush Jr. was a draft dodger who couldn't even complete his stateside

> >service. That did speak volumes about him.

> >

> >Actually spending time prior to elective office working for the people --

as

> >Clinton and Obama have done -- is a good thing. What did Romney do

beside

> >line his pockets? McCain has a good excuse for having done nothing, as

he

> >was a POW, but upon his return what did he do? Other than being one of

the

> >Keating Five that is.

> >

> >

> So basically it NEVER was a real issue with any of you other than

> using it as talking points. Thanks for clearing that up.

So basically you missed the ACTUAL issue which is the hypocrisy of the

rightwingnuts.