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Colin Powell's Smoking Guns Come Out Blazing
by
Gregory J. Rummo
When did
liberals ever let something like the law stand in
their way? Only they know what is best for America
so obviously obstacles like the will of the people
can be overlooked, especially when it concerns war.
Recall the events in Florida in November 2000 when
Democrats ignored the rule of law regarding
elections and more recently here in New Jersey when
they pulled a similar stunt by replacing a
disgraced Robert Torricelli with Frank Lautenberg
on the ballot for US Senate after the deadline for
such replacements had passed.
It should come as no surprise then, that despite
Saddam Hussein’s clear violation of UN Resolution
1441, liberals in Washington, aided and abetted by
their friends in the mainstream media, are up to
their old tricks.
They think they can simply ignore what was decreed
by the UN, make up their own rules on the fly and
you and I will be stupid enough to fall for their
sappy logic.
Maybe this is a subconscious slip on their part,
revealing deep down inside just how irrelevant even
they think the UN has become. Irrelevant or not, UN
Resolution 1441 is the rule of law regarding the
rules of engagement on the battlefield in Baghdad.
For those who still insist on a smoking gun, Bob
Schieffer’s interview of Colin Powell on Face the
Nation this past weekend provided all the smoke
that’s necessary.
As hysterical protesters were marching in
Washington, blaming President Bush for bringing the
world to the brink of war in the Middle East, the
Secretary of State calmly explained, “The President
is trying every means not to go to war. But the
decision to go to war is in the hands of Saddam
Hussein. This is a man who has weapons of mass
destruction. He has used them against his own
people. He has used them against his own neighbors.
UN 1441 has said disarm. If he disarms, then there
will be no war. The burden is on him… We cannot
allow Saddam Hussein to deny his responsibilities.
We cannot step back from this challenge.”
UN Resolution 1441 puts the onus on Saddam Hussein.
It’s clearly not George Bush’s war or even the US’s
war.
Powell continued, “Is …Saddam Hussein serious about
disarming? Is he cooperating with the inspectors in
that disarmament process? If he is not, if he is
continuing to try to hide things, if we have to
keep discovering rockets that were undeclared that
were supposed to carry chemical warheads, if we
continue to find that documents having to do with
nuclear weapons have been hidden in the homes of
scientists, then it doesn’t make any difference how
long we let the inspection go on.”
Schieffer, apparently still not getting it, asked
Powell precisely what it is Iraq must do to avoid a
war.
Powell answered, “…They are not cooperating. …What
we wanted from them under UN Resolution 1441 was a
full, complete and accurate declaration. …There are
questions about what they did with anthrax… with
botulinum toxins, with all kinds of horrible
biological and chemical agents that they have not
accounted for. They have not reported to the
council what they might or might not have done with
respect to nuclear weapons. That is what we are
looking for—full disclosure.”
If you are growing weary of Saddam’s game of hide
the weapons of mass destruction you aren’t alone.
President Bush, who last week said he was “sick and
tired” of Hussein’s nonsense, blasted world leaders
saying, “This business about more time — how much
time do we need to see clearly that he's not
disarming?"
It would save us all a lot of trouble if Saddam
would simply leave Iraq—several countries have made
him an offer of asylum—if Iraqi leaders would open
up their books revealing where all of the stashes
of WMD have been hidden, if the Iraqi people would
then hold democratic elections and a moderate
leader was chosen to rule their country.
But Saddam is a terrorist who has proven he will
kill anyone including his own people to stay in
power.
Liberals are often confused when the rule of law
conflicts with their self-anointed agendas. When
you heap on the added ugliness of a war, they
simply don’t have the stomach to deal with it.
Now is not the time for confused thinking. Please
get out of the way.
Gregory J. Rummo is a syndicated columnist. His
website is
www.GregRummo.com
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