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11-10-2002, 04:36 PM
Bush taking after hero Reagan (http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/macdonald.html)
By BOB MACDONALD -- Toronto Sun
'Iraq can be certain that the old game of cheat and retreat, tolerated at other times, will no longer be tolerated."
Those were the blunt words yesterday of U.S. President George W. Bush. He warned Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein that his 11 years of twisting, turning, lying, cheating and deceiving United Nations arms inspectors has come to an end.
Oh yes, Saddam may try to do all those things once more -- at various times -- but the risks he takes are far more dangerous than anything in the past.
"The resolution presents the Iraqi regime with a test, a final test," declared Bush, noting the new UN Security Council resolution orders Iraq to get rid of all arms of mass destruction -- chemical, biological and nuclear.
And, of course, that U.S-British-sponsored resolution -- approved Friday in a 15-0 vote -- allows the United States to lead a war against Iraq to disarm it and get rid of Saddam if he at any time tries to defy or deceive UN arms inspections.
In other words, this is an entirely new ball game for Saddam, the UN and, yes, the United States itself.
Probably for the first time since the days of Ronald Reagan, the U.S. is led by a straight-ahead president who says what he means and does what he says.
Reagan was the guy who called the communist Soviet Union "the Evil Empire" and proceeded -- with British PM Margaret Thatcher as his loyal partner -- to challenge, undermine and finally destroy it.
When the Soviets -- using Fidel Castro's forces as a surrogate -- tried to make Grenada a communist base, Reagan sent U.S. forces and destroyed that growing threat.
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And guess who is President Bush's hero? You got it -- Ronald Reagan. And like Reagan, one of Bush's greatest assets is that his critics and opponents have always underestimated him. Both were sneered at by the pseudo-intellectuals who infest our lib-left world.
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Click here to read more (http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/macdonald.html)
By BOB MACDONALD -- Toronto Sun
'Iraq can be certain that the old game of cheat and retreat, tolerated at other times, will no longer be tolerated."
Those were the blunt words yesterday of U.S. President George W. Bush. He warned Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein that his 11 years of twisting, turning, lying, cheating and deceiving United Nations arms inspectors has come to an end.
Oh yes, Saddam may try to do all those things once more -- at various times -- but the risks he takes are far more dangerous than anything in the past.
"The resolution presents the Iraqi regime with a test, a final test," declared Bush, noting the new UN Security Council resolution orders Iraq to get rid of all arms of mass destruction -- chemical, biological and nuclear.
And, of course, that U.S-British-sponsored resolution -- approved Friday in a 15-0 vote -- allows the United States to lead a war against Iraq to disarm it and get rid of Saddam if he at any time tries to defy or deceive UN arms inspections.
In other words, this is an entirely new ball game for Saddam, the UN and, yes, the United States itself.
Probably for the first time since the days of Ronald Reagan, the U.S. is led by a straight-ahead president who says what he means and does what he says.
Reagan was the guy who called the communist Soviet Union "the Evil Empire" and proceeded -- with British PM Margaret Thatcher as his loyal partner -- to challenge, undermine and finally destroy it.
When the Soviets -- using Fidel Castro's forces as a surrogate -- tried to make Grenada a communist base, Reagan sent U.S. forces and destroyed that growing threat.
...
And guess who is President Bush's hero? You got it -- Ronald Reagan. And like Reagan, one of Bush's greatest assets is that his critics and opponents have always underestimated him. Both were sneered at by the pseudo-intellectuals who infest our lib-left world.
...
Click here to read more (http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/macdonald.html)