From 2003: Colin Powell Addresses United Nations Security Council On Iraq — Transcript

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1. 0:00I cannot tell you everything that we
2. 0:02know but what I can share with you when
3. 0:05combined with what all of us have
4. 0:07learned over the years is deeply
5. 0:09troubling what you will see is an
6. 0:12accumulation of facts and disturbing
7. 0:14patterns of behavior the facts in
8. 0:16iraqi's Behavior Iraq's Behavior
9. 0:19demonstrate that sodam Hussein and his
10. 0:21regime have made no effort no effort to
11. 0:24disarm as required by the International
12. 0:27Community indeed the facts and Iraq's
13. 0:30Behavior show that Saddam Hussein and
14. 0:32his regime are concealing their efforts
15. 0:34to produce more weapons of mass
16. 0:37destruction none of this should come as
17. 0:39a surprise to any of us terrorism has
18. 0:42been a tool used by Saddam for decades
19. 0:46Saddam was a supporter of terrorism long
20. 0:48before these terrorist networks had a
21. 0:50name and this support continues the
22. 0:53Nexus of poisons and terror is new the
23. 0:56Nexus of Iraq and terror is old the
24. 1:00combination is lethal with this track
25. 1:03record Iraqi denials of supporting
26. 1:06terrorism take their place alongside the
27. 1:09other Iraqi denials of weapons of mass
28. 1:12destruction it is all a Web of Lies when
29. 1:16we confront a regime that Harbors
30. 1:18Ambitions for regional domination hides
31. 1:20weapons of mass destruction and provides
32. 1:23Haven and active support for terrorists
33. 1:25we are not confronting the past we are
34. 1:28confronting the present present and
35. 1:30unless we act we are confronting an even
36. 1:34more frightening future my friends this
37. 1:38has been a long and a detailed
38. 1:40presentation and I thank you for your
39. 1:42patience but there is one more subject
40. 1:44that I would like to touch on briefly
41. 1:47and it should be a subject of deep and
42. 1:48continuing concern to this Council
43. 1:51Saddam Hussein's violations of human
44. 1:54rights underlying all that I have said
45. 1:57underlying all the facts and the
46. 1:58patterns of behavior that I have
47. 2:00identified is Saddam Hussein's contempt
48. 2:03for the will of this Council his
49. 2:05contempt for the truth and most damning
50. 2:07of all his utter contempt for human life
51. 2:11sodam Hussein's used of mustard in nerve
52. 2:13gas against the Kurds in
53. 2:1519988 1988 was one of the 20th Century's
54. 2:19most horrible atrocities 5,000 men women
55. 2:22and children died his campaign against
56. 2:24the Kurds from 1987 to '89 included Mass
57. 2:28summary executions appearances arbitrary
58. 2:31jailing ethnic cleansing and the
59. 2:33destruction of some 2,000 Villages he
60. 2:36has also conducted ethnic cleansing
61. 2:38against the Shia Iraqis and the marsh
62. 2:40Arabs whose culture has flourished from
63. 2:43more than a millennium Saddam Hussein's
64. 2:45police state ruthless ruthlessly
65. 2:48eliminates anyone who dares to descent
66. 2:51Iraq has more forced disappearance cases
67. 2:54than any other country tens of thousands
68. 2:56of people reported missing in the past
69. 3:00decade nothing points more clearly to
70. 3:02sodam Hussein's dangerous intentions and
71. 3:05the threat he poses to all of us than
72. 3:08his calculated cruelty to his own
73. 3:11citizens and to his neighbors clearly
74. 3:14sodam Hussein and his regime will stop
75. 3:16at nothing until something stops
76. 3:21him for more than 20
77. 3:23years by word and by deed sodam Hussein
78. 3:28has pursued his ambition to dominate
79. 3:30Iraq in the broader Middle East using
80. 3:32the only means he knows intimidation
81. 3:35coercion and annihilation of all those
82. 3:37who might stand in his way for sodam
83. 3:41Hussein possession of the world's most
84. 3:43deadly weapons is the ultimate trump
85. 3:46card the one he must hold to fulfill his
86. 3:49ambition we know that sodam Hussein is
87. 3:51determined to keep his weapons of mass
88. 3:53destruction he's determined to make more
89. 3:56given sodam Hussein's history of
90. 3:58aggression given what we know of his
91. 4:00grandiose plans given what we know of
92. 4:02his terrorist
93. 4:04associations and given his determination
94. 4:07to exact revenge on those who oppose him
95. 4:10should we take the risk that he will not
96. 4:13someday use these weapons at a time in a
97. 4:18place and in a manner of his choosing at
98. 4:20a time when the world is in a much
99. 4:24weaker position to respond the United
100. 4:27States will not and cannot run that risk
101. 4:29that the American people leaving Saddam
102. 4:32Hussein in possession of weapons of mass
103. 4:33destruction for a few more months or
104. 4:35years is not an option not in a post
105. 4:39September 11th world my colleagues over
106. 4:43three months ago this Council recognized
107. 4:45that Iraq continued to pose a threat to
108. 4:47International Peace and security and
109. 4:50that Iraq had been and remained in
110. 4:52material breach of its disarmament
111. 4:55obligations today Iraq still poses a
112. 4:58threat and Iraq Still Remains in
113. 5:01material breach indeed by its failure to
114. 5:04seize on its one last opportunity to
115. 5:08come clean and disarm Iraq has put
116. 5:11itself in deeper material breach and
117. 5:14closer to the day when it will face
118. 5:17serious consequences for its continued
119. 5:20Defiance of this
120. 5:22Council my colleagues we have an
121. 5:24obligation to our citizens we have an
122. 5:27obligation to this body to to see that
123. 5:31our resolutions are complied with we
124. 5:34wrote
125. 5:351441 not in order to go to war we wrote
126. 5:391441 to try to preserve the peace we
127. 5:42wrote
128. 5:431441 to give Iraq one last chance Iraq
129. 5:48is not so far taking that one last
130. 5:53chance we must not shrink from whatever
131. 5:56is ahead of us we must not fail in our
132. 5:59duty
133. 6:00and our responsibility to the citizens
134. 6:03of the countries that are represented by
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