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18 September 2002

Bush Pledges Iraq Resolution Language for Congress Soon

(White House Report, September 18) (140)
President Bush said he told congressional leaders at a White House
breakfast September 18 that his administration would have language for
a Capitol Hill resolution on Iraq in the next couple of days.
Bush said he thanked the leadership for its pledge to pass a
resolution before recessing and engaging in re-election campaigning.
He called an Iraq resolution "an important signal" of U.S. unity
against the threat of terrorism.
In an Oval Office media availability after the breakfast, Bush
answered a question concerning the difficulty of pursuing a U.N.
Security Council resolution after Iraq's offer to readmit U.N.
inspectors, saying "reasonable people understand this is just a ploy .
a way to say to the world, 'I'm a wonderful, peaceful fellow' when, in
fact, he not only kills his own people, he's terrorized his
neighborhood and he's developing weapons of mass destruction. We must
deal with him."
(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)