I have no plans to attack Iraq: Bush

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[The hallmark of a chronic liar is to sprinkle all his statements
with "and it's the truth."  But it looks like the coward-liar-thief
has heard it loud and clear from the Germans, and he's decided to
postpone his war on Iraq for the time being, rather than going it
alone. Until, perhaps, they can cook up a new terrorist attack
against Europe or the US and blame it on Saddam Hussein. That may
not work twice, however.]

AFP via Times of India - May 23 2002
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=10774409

"I have no plans to attack Iraq" - Bush

BERLIN, May 23--US President George W. Bush said on Thursday that he
does not at the current time have any concrete plans to attack Iraq.

"I have no war plans on my desk, and it's the truth," Bush said at a
joint press conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder.

But Bush said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein remained a threat as a
"dictator who's gassed his own people" and who is working to acquire
weapons of mass destruction.

He said the United States remained committed to using "all means at
our disposal" to fight Iraq, if necessary.

"I'm telling you the threat is real," Bush said, saying that Iraq can
not be allowed to make weapons of mass destruction available to
terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda, blamed for the September 11
attacks.

He said "history has called us to action" on this issue.

Schroeder said there was no disagreement between him and Bush that
pressure must be put on Iraq to allow in UN arms inspectors of
suspected weapons of mass destruction.

He said that since the United States has no concrete plans to attack
Iraq, there was no reason to speculate about German military
involvement in one.

Bush's reference to Saddam Hussein attacking his own people
apparently related to events in March 1988, in the last stages of
Iraq's war with neighbouring Iran.

In that month the Iraqi leader ordered attacks using chemical weapons
against Kurdish regions in the north of the country, whose population
had taken sides with Iran.

In one attack, on the village of Halabja, 5,000 people were reported
killed.
 
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