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and now the un security council has made it clear: let weapons inspectors in, or else. - powell pushed very hard to get the security council to adopt a resolution, demanding saddam hussein readmit international weapons inspectors. and saddam hussein agreed to it. - the outcome of the current crisis... is already determined. a full disarmament of weapons of mass destruction will occur. the only question for the iraqi regime is to decide how. - weapons inspectors are confident their first few days there have gone smoothly. that includes the right to make surprise checks on so-called "special sites," including presidential palaces. - when the saddam regime readmitted the inspectors, they were making progress. but they simply did not have enough time to really find out anything, uh, of significance. - at this point, the security council was very much against an invasion. and so it was decided, in the white house, that they had to make one more push and really say,
is a grave and gathering danger. we must stand up for our security, and for the permanent rights and the hopes of mankind. by heritage and by choice, the united states of america will make that stand. and delegates to the united nations: you have the power to make that stand as well. thank you very much. [applause] - as bush is now seriously preparing for the invasion of iraq, he realizes he's gonna have to make a public case. not just, um, to the american people, but to the world. - no one should have any illusions. - what the president of the united states is talking about is a new war against iraq, with the purpose of removing from power saddam hussein. - you have a dictator there who's not obeying un resolutions-- and he certainly wasn't-- who had had weapons of mass destruction-- that we thought still did. so i think there's quite a strong case for action. - a deal was reached, a vote taken,
job performance has jumped ten points from 67% to 77% as of this evening. - of course, the mission was far from accomplished, and in fact what was actually happening, uh, during this moment is the, uh, real insurgency was beginning to gather steam. - the jubilant mood among those very iraqis who suffered most under saddam's regime was not necessarily shared across the iraqi capital, where some violent resistance remained. - it was starting to appear to me that this was not going to end the way it had been briefed. uh, you could just see that this country was probably going to crack. - the united states learned the hard way that removing a tyrant is not the same thing as ushering in democracy. it's much less difficult in-- in many instances to get rid of the old than it is to help bring about something that's new and better and enduring. - it may seem an ungracious note on which to end, but beware the euphoria. ripping down saddam's pictures, toppling his statues,