Yeah can't wait to see Annan be confronted for his lies, and see how he
tries to get out of that one.

Marvin The Paranoid Android a écrit:

This should be fun ... wonder if he'll be able to keep a straight face??

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Bush Faces Global Critics at U.N. This Week
Sun Sep 19, 2004 01:30 PM ET

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two years after he made a case against Iraq over
unconventional weapons that were never found, President Bush faces global
critics at the United Nations this week to argue it is essential that
war-ravaged Iraq become a stable democracy.

Bush makes his annual trek to New York to speak to the U.N. General Assembly
on Tuesday. His remarks are likely to be seen in an election-year context,
at a time of rising casualties in Iraq, fears of civil war and questions
about whether national elections can be held in January as scheduled.

Bush's speech will be a mixture of talking up his hopes for success in Iraq
and Afghanistan -- where a struggle is taking place to hold elections Oct.
9 -- and emphasizing U.S. efforts to assist the global fight against AIDS,
hunger, illiteracy and poverty.

"All the world can be certain: America and our allies will keep our
commitments to the Afghan and Iraqi people. Our long-term security -- the
safety of our children and grandchildren -- will be served when the broader
Middle East is home to stable, democratic governments that fight terror,"
Bush said in his weekly radio address on Saturday.

Many world leaders who opposed Bush on Iraq will be listening carefully to
what he says about the situation there. He will be able to point to Iraqi
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi as an example of a new generation of Iraqi
leadership. He will meet Allawi at the White House on Thursday.

"He's a tough guy," Bush said at a campaign event on Friday in Charlotte,
N.C. "He believes that Iraq should be free and he cares about the hopes and
aspirations of the Iraqi people."

But there are likely to be some skeptics in the U.N. audience. U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said last week he believes the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq was a violation of international law.

It was two years ago at the U.N. General Assembly that Bush challenged world
leaders to back up sanctions against Iraq with the threat of severe
consequences for Saddam Hussein if he did not disarm, and the Security
Council responded with a unanimous vote.

But months later, after U.N. weapons inspectors failed to find weapons of
mass destruction, the United Nations refused to back Bush's call for war,
and Bush launched the conflict with support from 35 nations. That coalition
is now dwindling even as an Iraqi insurgency increases attacks.

A key argument Bush is making on the campaign trail is that Iraq is better
off without Saddam in power. The CIA has warned of the possibility that Iraq
could descend into civil war.

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has been stepping up his attacks
on Bush over the war. He accused Bush last week of "living in a fantasy
world of spin" and failing to tell the truth about chaos and violence in
Iraq.

While in New York, Bush will meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who
survived an assassination attempt last week, and Pakistani President Pervez
Musharraf, an ally in the effort to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda threat
along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.


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