XMCA Mail 2003_02: Power-mad smirking chimp tells millions world

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Power-mad smirking chimp tells millions worldwide to get stuffed.

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President Bush declared on Tuesday that he wouldn't be deterred by=20
global protests against war with Iraq, saying "I respectfully disagree"=20
with those who doubt that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace.

He said such a war remains a final resort, but "the risk of doing=20
nothing is even a worse option as far as I'm concerned."

Despite heavy opposition at the United Nations and protests around the=20
world, the Bush administration appeared ready to push ahead this week=20
for a new Security Council resolution that could open the way for war.

Bush said that the size of the protests against a possible U.S.-led war=20
against Iraq was irrelevant.

"Size of protest, it's like deciding, 'Well I'm going to decide policy=20
based up on a focus group.' The role of a leader is to decide policy=20
based upon the security - in this case - security of the people."

Millions of people around the world took to the streets over the weekend=20
to protest such a war.

"Democracy is a beautiful thing, and that people are allowed to express=20
their opinion," Bush said.

"Some in the world don't view Saddam Hussein as a risk to peace," he=20
added. "I respectfully disagree."

Bush said that Saddam Hussein continued to pose a very real threat to=20
Americans and to the world.

The president expressed confidence that the United States would come up=20
with an acceptable aid package for Turkey, a close U.S. ally in the=20
region who will play a vital role if there is military action against=20
Baghdad.

Bush said Turkey has "no better friend than the American government" and=20
that Washington and Ankara were still working out details of an aid packa=
ge.

The U.S. military plans to use bases in Turkey both for aircraft and for=20
ground forces in the event of an attack on Turkey's neighbor to the south.

Bush indicated that he was running out of patience. Asked if he planned=20
to set an ultimatum for Saddam's compliance, Bush suggested that would=20
be pointless, like extending "another, another, another last chance."

"He knows my feelings, and that is, he needs to disarm - completely and=20
totally disarm. He's a fellow that likes to buy time and buy it through=20
deception and delay."

The global anti-war protests have put the White House on the defensive.=20
Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer began his daily briefing by reading=20
newspaper clips about demonstrations against the staging of missiles in=20
Germany in the early 1980s, and said, "This is not the first time there=20
have been mass protests and in a previous instance America stood on=20
principle ... and as a result the Berlin Wall came down."

He also told reporters that former President Franklin Roosevelt overcame=20
protests from isolationists to lead American into World War II.

"Often the message of protesters is contradicted by history," he said
--=20
=93There is no hope of finding the sources of free action in the lofty=20
realms of the mind or in the depths of the brain. The idealist approach=20
of the phenomenologists is as hopeless as the positive approach of the=20
naturalists. To discover the sources of free action it is necessary to=20
go outside the limits of the organism, not into the intimate sphere of=20
the mind, but into the objective forms of social life; it is necessary=20
to seek the sources of human consciousness and freedom in the social=20
history of humanity. To find the soul it is necessary to lose it".
A.R Luria