State of the Union message

 



The economy is getting weaker. Consumer confidence is down. Unemployment is up. Federal budget deficits are rising to record levels. 

The state of the union is, in a word, “dismal.”

Two Nobel Peace Prize winners–former South African President Nelson Mandela and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter–criticized the Bush approach as shortsighted at best, or as arrogant, or even racially motivated.

What I am condemning is that one power with a president who has no foresight and cannot think properly is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust not made a case for a preemptive military strike against Iraq.

The spectacle of the United States, armed with its weapons of mass destruction, acting without Security Council authority to invade a country in the heartland of Arabia and, if necessary, use of weapons of mass destruction to win that battle, is something that will so deeply violate any notion of fairness in this world that I strongly suspect it could set loose forces that we would deeply live to regret.

I want to hear more before I am willing to sacrifice a single young man or woman who lives in the District of Columbia.

Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly?

Their friend Israel has got weapons of mass destruction, but because it’s their ally, they won’t ask the UN to get rid of it.

Is it because the secretary general of the United Nations is now a Black man? They never did that when the secretary generals were White, is the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America; I do believe that the course that you are guiding the nation on will increase many enemies for you and the nation at home and abroad

Your actions will also render the United Nations as an ineffective institution for future peacekeeping. And this will produce a crisis for your administration within the United States as well as in countries throughout the world

Time will tell if he does. Time will tell if history repeats itself.


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