![]() ![]() In an address to the United Nations, President Bush is expected to include a case for removing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. US defense officials confirmed plans to transport a brigade's worth of equipment - about 70 tanks and other tracked vehicles plus additional military cargo - to Kuwait from the United States aboard a commercial cargo vessel in late September. If President Bush decided to seek authorization from Capitol Hill, he may ask in September for military action in late 2002. įoreign ministers of the 15-nation European Union are developing a plan under which a UN Security Council resolution would require Iraq to re-admit weapons inspectors by a specific date, or face military action.Ĭongress returned to business on 03 September. ![]() ![]() In late February 2002 it was reported that it would take six months to produce enough Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) precision guided munitions before the Pentagon could contemplate an attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. America has, and intends to keep, military strengths beyond challenge, thereby making the destabilizing arms races of other eras pointless, and limiting rivalries to trade and other pursuits of peace." We have our best chance since the rise of the nation state in the 17th century to build a world where the great powers compete in peace instead of prepare for war. Military Academy at West Point, New York, President Bush said "Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies. I will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer."Ġ1 June 2002 Speaking to the graduating class at the U.S. "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. He called them and their terrorist allies "an axis of evil," and said the price of indifference to them would be "catastrophic." He also warned that the country cannot afford to delay in further responding to the terrorist threat. As such, the current setting of the clock is intended to focus attention on political and diplomatic considerations notably with regards to the United Nations, Turkey, and the summit between the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain in the AzorresĢ9 January 2002 In his first State of the Union address, President Bush named three countries that he said continue to sponsor terror: North Korea, Iran and Iraq. The build-up, if not yet completed, should be in its final stages. The setting of the countdown clock was intended to focus attention on the progression of the military build-up in Southwest Asia. It is important to note though that US military operations could have commenced after only a week or ten days of overt force buildups at any time prior to late February 2003. However, the announcement of the deployments of major forces in mid-January 2003 seemed to indicate that the United States did not intend to begin the invasion until later as these forces would have required considerable time to arrive. Based on the timeline contained in the 08 November 2002 Security Council resolution, the US might have been prepared to delay military operations until the last week of January 2003. ![]() The Bush Administration has almost certainly not approved the timing of military operations against Iraq, and consequently any projection of the probable timing of such operations is neccessarily speculative. ![]()
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