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These are from March 2003, right before the Shock and Awe.

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CLINTON SUGGESTS BUSH RELAX DEADLINE TO GET SECURITY COUNCIL VOTES "Clinton's speech to a meeting of union leaders in Washington, appeared to be the first time the former president has publicly espoused an approach substantially different from the administration's stance. As fevered negotiations continued around the world yesterday, the Bush administration held to a short, stern schedule for resolving the question of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's compliance with U.N. disarmament orders. Wavering members of the Security Council and other interested countries at the United Nations have proposed deadlines extending into April, while permanent council members France and Russia have opposed deadlines of any kind. Clinton warmly praised British Prime Minister Tony Blair and endorsed his proposal to set five specific benchmarks that Hussein must meet to prove that he is disarming. The former president also said chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix should set the timetable for compliance. "Then I would hope the United States would agree to that amount of time, whatever it is," he said. " 3.13.03 www.bushwatch.com
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U.S. AND U.K. PROPOSE "DROP DEAD" DATE OF MARCH 17 TO U.N. "After the Blix U.N. report this morning of limited cooperation by Iraq and a with a desire to extend the armm-twisting period to try to gain a majority, Colin Powell and Jack Straw produced an amended resolution to the U.N., asking the security council to approve a proposal to have Iraq totally disarm by March 17 or face war. However, in his remarks this past week as well as at last night's press conference, Bush has said that he desired a regime change in Iraq, something the U.N. resolution does not demand. Accordingly, even if the U.N. were to reject the U.S.-U.K. proposed resolution, Bush has asserted the desire to go to war on the basis of something the U.N. isn't even considering, the removal of Saddam from power. Clearly, the message Bush is sending to the U.N. is that it may as well vote for the new U.S.-U.K resolution, because even if it doesn't, Bush may very well go to war on grounds that the U.N. isn't even discussing. Thus, Bush continues his attempt to bully the U.N. into submission, an undiplomatic approach to a serious world situation that most other countries will not take kindly and will well remember in future negotiations with the U.S. " 3.07.03 www.bushwatch.com

BUSH PRESS CONFERENCE GEARED TO UNDERCUT U.N. REPORT "It was... no accident, advisers to the White House said, that Mr. Bush's news conference came only 14 hours before Hans Blix, a chief United Nations weapons inspector, was due to present in the Security Council what administration officials were dreading as a rebuke.The strategy was to pre-empt Mr. Blix, whom furious administration officials would have fired by now if they could, then go on the offensive and try to wrest back control of the debate. Mr. Bush's approach was to present himself as a calm, reasonable leader, not an aggressive warrior, in a human give-and-take with the media. His manner was extraordinarily tranquil, perhaps aiming to soothe a nation anxious about war. " 3.07.03 www.bushwatch.com
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APPOINTMENT OF DEATH IN BAGHDAD "The US appointment in Baghdad has taken on that same feeling of inevitability, with the White House brushing off Iraq's destruction of 34 of its arsenal of illegal missiles, shrugging off Turkey's vote against letting the US troops use Turkish soil as an invasion-staging area, and vowing not to be deterred by French, Russian, Chinese, and German opposition in the United Nations to an attack on Iraq. Nor can the Bush administration expect chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix to bolster the case for war when he addresses the Security Council today. With Iraq now destroying some missiles and granting some access to scientists, Blix is likely to claim measured progress on some fronts. All that should signal to the White House that it's time to rethink its current course. " 3.07.03 www.bushwatch.com
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