Saturday, April 15, 2006

Hastert Letter to Baar, Jan 18, 1999

5 comments:

Bill Baar 6:59 PM  

Clinton's dropped steadly in my opinion.

But I still thinking impeaching did the country harm and handicapped him with Iraq and following through with this speech a month or so after Hastert's letter, given the Joint Chiefs, on Iraq.

Saddam Hussein's Iraq reminds us of what we learned in the 20th century and warns us of what we must know about the 21st. In this century, we learned through harsh experience that the only answer to aggression and illegal behavior is firmness, determination, and when necessary action.

In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed.

If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program.

But if we act as one, we can safeguard our interests and send a clear message to every would-be tyrant and terrorist that the international community does have the wisdom and the will and the way to protect peace and security in a new era. That is the future I ask you all to imagine. That is the future I ask our allies to imagine.

If we look at the past and imagine that future, we will act as one together. And we still have, God willing, a chance to find a diplomatic resolution to this, and if not, God willing, the chance to do the right thing for our children and grandchildren.

I hope Major Duckworth thinking as one today too.

Bill Baar 7:02 PM  

Sorry, it was Feb 1998... but he was still wounded politically.

So-Called Austin Mayor 8:14 PM  

Full address?

I am so egging your house tonight!

Bill Baar 7:25 AM  

I thought about that... but I use my real name. It's not as though people can't look you up in the phone book.

It seemed dumb to block it out.

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