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 Sunday, March 16, 2003

Counting down...

One more "last chance":

March 16 — Calling Monday a “moment of truth for the world,” President Bush pressed one last time for Iraq’s disarmament during an emergency summit with the leaders of Spain and Britain in the Azores islands on Sunday. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who just hours before the meeting placed his country on war footing, responded to the allies, saying it is a “great lie” that his country still has banned weapons.

AT A JOINT press conference at the end of the brief meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Durao Barroso, Bush said the world must support the “immediate and unconditional” disarmament of Saddam Hussein.

“Tomorrow is the day we will determine if diplomacy can work,” Bush said. “These are his decisions to make and thus far he has made bad decisions.”

How Bush can claim that "tomorrow" they will decide if diplomacy can work, when he obviously determined before any of this really began that it wouldn't, is beyond me - but this is man who seems to be chronically allergic to the truth, so it's certainly no surprise.

Once diplomacy was exhausted, officials said, Bush would address the nation, issuing a final ultimatum to Saddam and giving aid workers and others time to leave Iraq.

Germany obviously expects war to break out soon. They're instructing all Germans to leave Iraq as soon as possible and are planning to be ready to close the embassy in Baghdad in the next 3 days.


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