What Happened Diplomatically?
We are a young nation, a powerful and gifted people, yet what happened in six months to divide the world so greatly on this issue? We have made a great deal of noise about the resistance by the French. Our congressional body even required “French” fries to be renamed “Freedom” fries. How did a united world become so divided over the issue of disarmning this undeniably brutal dictator? We have captured a key quote from President Bush’s address to the world on March 17th. We believe that herein lies the crucial point in this debate [download video clip]. Bush claims, “The terrorist threat to America, and the world, will be diminished the moment that Saddam Hussein is disarmed.” If Bush’s assumption is correct, who would not support disarming Saddam? Not one advanced country, not one rational citizen, prefers to live under the threat of terrorism. Americans do not; Canadians and Mexicans do not; and certainly, the French, Germans and Russians do not. How could anyone fail to support Presi
