Do You Remember This, Too? AP Article March 9, 2003 (Powell, Dean, Carter on the war)

[Hissyspit]

I found this article again a few days ago and I've been meaning to post it, so I hope BleedingHeartPatriot doesn't think I'm just being a copy-cat to the Time Magazine cover, but I think it is important to remind ourselves that the truth was out there and there was a concerted effort to suppress it and that these people need to be held accountable.

I have no link. When I googled this article, I found plenty of entries showing it existed, but no cached version. Please add a link if you can find one.

Powell Sees Hope For U.N. Vote On Iraq

(Headline is technically correct, but "hope"??? "Hope" that the U.N. will let us have a war?)

March 9, 2003 06:25 PM EST

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Powell held out hope Sunday that the U.N. Security Council, allies across the globe and the American public will vote to support an American-led war with Iraq, as the United States pressed for an ultimatum giving Saddam Hussein until March 17 to prove he has disarmed.

("American-led war." So much of which to be proud.)

Powell said he was within "striking distance" of the necessary nine votes for a majority on the 15-member council. But he concede on "Fox News Sunday" that the French appeared set to "do everything they can to stop it by using their veto." Such a veto, he warned, would "have a serious effect on bilateral relations, at least in short term."

(Those French surrender monkeys!! Who the hell do they think they are? What could they have been thinking? /sarcasm)

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Late Sunday afternoon, 23 anti-war protesters were arrested outside the Capitol. Capitol Police spokeswoman Jessica Gissubel said the arrest came after police reached agreement with a group who wanted to be arrested. She said police established a line and protesters were arrested for crossing it. Those arrested face a $50 fine, she said. Thousands of protesters converged on the White House to voice opposition to war Saturday, and additional demonstrations were planned for Sunday.

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War "is always unpopular," Powell said. "I've seen it in a number of crisises, whetehr it was goiung into Panama or the Gulf War, where public opinion is against you until the moment of truth comes when you go in and you find out what they really have been doing, you liberate a people and you create a better life for that country, for the people of that country - then you see publci opinion will change."

(Oh, wow, what a visionary... /sarcasm)

But Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean warned that a U.S.-led war would give license to other nations who felt they needed to pre-emptively attack. "It might be considered as a precedent for others to try to do the same," Chretien said on ABC. "Where do you stop? You know, if you can do it there, why not elsewhere?"

"What is it to prevent China, some years down the road, from saying, "look what the United States did in Iraq - we're justified in going in and taking on Taiwan?" Dean said on NBC. Dean the former governor of Vermont, said President Bush had not made the case that military action against Iraq was justified. "Going into Iraq I believe has little to do with protecting the United States of America," he said.

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Former President Jimmy Carter, last year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate added his voice to that warning. "It is quite possible that the aftermath of a military invasion will destabilize the region and prompt terrorists to further jeopardize our security at home," Carter wrote in a New York Times article Sunday. "Increasingly unilateral and domineering policies have brought international trust in our country to its lowest level in memory," Carter wrote. "American stature will surely decline further if we launch a war in clear defiance of the United Nations."

[IndyOp]

1. Damn that is amazing. Once the drumbeat for war starts,

the din is so intense that nothing else can be heard.

:(

[GalleryGod]

2. There will be a Special hell for Colin Powell

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :nuke: :evilgrin:

[Eric J in MN]

3. Link

http://www.tampabays10.com/printfullstory.aspx?storyid=1941

[Hissyspit]

5. Thanks. Nancy Pelosi:

"House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California drew a standing ovation from the Communications Workers of America Sunday as she stated her opposition to an Iraq war at this time. Bush has alienated allies in the war on terror, she said.

'Our country has never been greater,' Pelosi said. 'And yet we have never been more dependent on our friends and allies to keep our country secure.'"

[bananas]

4. It would be nice to find Jimmy Carter's article

It would be interesting to see what else he foresaw:
Former President Jimmy Carter, last year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate added his voice to that warning. "It is quite possible that the aftermath of a military invasion will destabilize the region and prompt terrorists to try to jeopardize our security at home," Carter wrote in a New York Times article Sunday.

[Eric J in MN]

6. If you join "Times Select" for $50 per year ...

...and do a search for "Jimmy Carter" around that time, you should find it.

[bananas]

7. Found it for free using google

Here's 3 of 99 hits:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0309-02.htm
http://www.cartercenter.org/news/documents/doc1249.html
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2003/03/09_carter_just-war.htm

[Hissyspit]

8. Yes, I remember that article well. Thanks for finding it. n/t

[Hissyspit]

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