World News 27-08-2002 US Vice-President Calls For Iraq Strike who: Vice president Dick Cheney what: Says US must strike against Saddam Hussein before it`s too late where: Nashville, Tenessee when: Yesterday snippet: "What we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or wilful blindness," United States vice-president Dick Cheney told a war veterans` convention in Nashville yesterday in a call for pre-emptive military action against Saddam Hussein. "We will not simply look away, hope for the best and leave the matter for some future administration to resolve." Mr Cheney contends that Iraq will grow stronger if the regime is not attacked soon, says The Independent. "Forcing President Saddam from power would bring freedom to Iraq, peace to the region, boost Arab moderates, cause extremists to rethink violence and help the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, he claimed." "President Bush`s legal advisers have decided that he does not need to seek congressional approval to go to war with Iraq," says The Guardian, "because the mandate his father was given for the Gulf war 11 years ago is still in force." The Telegraph says that a reference to the dictator as a proven master of deception, who had developed chemical weapons "almost literally under the noses" of UN inspectors, "amounted to a rebuke for Britain, where ministers have stated that their main priority is the return of United Nations weapons inspectors". [... more]

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