Quotations Bush speaking to allies

Bush Explicitly or Implicitly Speaking to Potential Allies

9/04/2002	White House	Sadaam Hussain has side stepped, crawfished, wheedled out of any agreement he has made. So I am going to call upon the world to recognize that he is stiffing the world. And I will lay out, I will talk about ways to fufill his obligations.
9/05/2002	Rally in Kentucky	I will remind them that history has called us into action. That we love freedom. That we will be deliberate, patient and strong in the values we adhere to. But we can't let the world's worst leaders blackmail, threaten, hold freedom loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.
9/24/2002	White House	Prime Minister Blair, first of all is a very strong leader and I admire his willingness to tell the truth and to lead, and the prime minister continues to make the case and so will I. And I again call for the United Nations to pass a strong resolution holding this man to account. And if they are unable to do so the United States and our friends will act.
9/26/2002	White House	We are engaged in a deliberate and civil and thorough discussion. We are moving toward a strong resolution. And all of us, and many others in congress, are united in our determination to confront an urgent threat to America.
10/21/2002	White House	The stated policy of the United States is regime change because for 11 years Sadaam Husain has ignored the United Nations and the free world; for 11 years. However, if he were to meet all of the conditions of the United Nations, conditions that I have described very clearly in terms that everybody can understand, that itself will signal that the regime has changed.
11/07/2002	White House, podium	Should we have to use troops, should it become a necessity in order to disarm him the United States, with friends, will move swiftly with force to do the job.
11/08/2002	White House, podium	The United States prefers that Iraq meet it obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative. In either case the just demands of the world will be met.
11/12/2002	White House, informal	It's over. We're through negotiations. There's no more time. The man must disarm. He said he would disarm. Now he must disarm. And, ahh, this deception and delay all of that's over with.
01/22/2003	St. Louis	He is adept at deception and delays and denying. He asks for more time so he can give the so-called inspectors more run around. He is interested in playing hide and seek in a huge country. He is not interested in disarming.
01/31/2003	White House, podium	Saddam Hussein is not disarming. He is a danger to the world. He must disarm. And that's why I have constantly said and the prime minister have constantly said this issue will come to a head in a matter of weeks, not months.
02/06/2003	White House, podium	No doubt he will play a last minute game of deception. The game is over. All the world can rise to this moment. The community of free natons can show that it is strong and confident and determined to keep the peace. The United Nations can renew its purpose and be a source of stability and security in the world. The Security Council can affirm that it is able and prepared to meet future challenges and other dangers. And we can give the Iraqi people their chance to live in freedom; to choose their own government. Saddam Hussein has made Iraq into a prison, a poison factory, and a torture chamber for patriots and dissidents. Saddam Hussein has the motive, and the means, and the recklessness and the hatred to threaten the American people. Saddam Hussein will be stopped.
02/13/2003	Navy, sailors	The decision is this for the United Nations. When you say something does it mean anything? See I believe when it's all said and done free nations will not allow the United Nations to fade into history as an ineffective, irrelevant debating society.
02/14/2003	podium	Saddam Hussein has got ties to terrorist networks. Saddam Hussein is a danger. And that's why he will be disarmed one way or the other.
02/20/2003	Atlanta	Thank you all. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not an option.
02/24/2003	small crowd	Is it going to be a body that means what it says? I certainly hope it does. But one way or the other Saddam Hussein, for the sake of peace and security of the American people, will be disarmed.
02/27/2003	White House, informal	See he'll say I am not going to destroy the rockets. And then he will have a change of mind this weekend and destroy the rockets and say I have disarmed. The rockets are just the tip of the ice berg. The only question at hand is total and complete disarmament which he is refusing to do.
03/07/2003	White House, podium	If we need to act, we will act. And we really don't need the United Nations approval to do so. When it comes to our security we really don't need anybody's permission.