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President Bush has put forth a few speeches in the last six months. Each speech was delivered with the veracity it deserves but still, something always seemed to be missing. Having listened to many speeches, I have felt that the lack of effectiveness of the speeches was detrimental to the issues, mainly because of the wording.
Words are very powerful and yet, the words of President Bush's speeches have caused great controversy across the globe. This shouldn't be so, as his reasons are valid. He speaks nothing but the truth but yet, somehow the truth can be misguided when given so bluntly and so forwardly. His speeches are also vastly one-sided for the majority. They are riddled with "me" and "us" and subsequently propose to disincline those who may or may not understand the force of reason. This type of "me and them" vocabulary was very instrumental in angering people and nations for all the wrong reasons. Words have the ability to reach across the world, break down barriers and coagulate nations--if written in a manner of respect, unity and understandable diversity for a common goal.
Basically, the "you" (whether you care or not) speech (and there have been many) has been overdone. When you set out to claim independent war regardless of world action from the very start of your plan, it's bound to run amuck in areas that shouldn't be involved. The whole point and process of intentions become misconstrued by the very words put forth.
Here, today, I have rewritten a plausible speech with context focused more on the reasons, the need for unity, and the dire need for changes in the world as it exists today. I re-wrote it with more emphasis on the reasons and on unification. Happy reading.

Terrorists are a worldwide threat. The events of 9/11 are among the most catastrophic of evidence that these threats are grander in scale than the world has seen previously. How many more lives must be taken around the world before we take the necessary steps to prevent our stability as nations from being torn apart?
These terrorists are raised with financial ties that are so strong and binding that we must, in order to prevent their continued stretching across many nations, sever them where they begin--that is in Iraq.
Saddam Hussein is a leader in terrorism. Twelve years ago, Iraq invaded Kuwait without provocation. And the regime's forces were poised to continue their march to seize other countries and their resources. Had Saddam Hussein been appeased instead of stopped, he would have endangered the peace and stability of the world.
Our common security is challenged by regional conflicts--ethnic and religious strife that is ancient but not inevitable. In the Middle East, there can be no peace for either side without freedom for both sides. America stands committed to an independent and democratic Palestine, living beside Israel in peace and security. Like all other people, Palestinians deserve a government that serves their interests and listens to their voices. My nation will continue to encourage all parties to step up to their responsibilities as we seek a just and comprehensive settlement to the conflict.
I am here today to encourage our United Nations to rally together as a world united to ensure that the protection and security of our nations, our people, is enforced.
In 1991, Security Council Resolution 688 demanded that the Iraqi regime ceases at once the repression of its own people, including the systematic repression of minorities, which, the Council said, "threaten(ed) international peace and security in the region."
This demand goes ignored. Last year, the UN Commission on Human Rights found that Iraq continues to commit "extremely grave violations" of human rights and that the regime's repression is "all pervasive." Tens of thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, summary execution, and torture by beating, burning, electric shock, starvation, mutilation, and rape. Wives are tortured in front of their husbands; children in the presence of their parents--all of these horrors concealed from the world by the apparatus of a totalitarian state.
In 1991, the UN Security Council, through Resolutions 686 and 687, demanded that Iraq return all prisoners from Kuwait and other lands. Iraq's regime agreed. It broke its promise. Last year the Secretary-General's high-level coordinator of this issue reported that Kuwaiti, Saudi, Indian, Syrian, Lebanese, Iranian, Egyptian, Bahraini, and Omani nationals remain unaccounted for--more than 600 people. One American pilot is among them.
In 1991, the UN Security Council, through Resolution 687, demanded the Iraq renounce all involvement with terrorism, and permit no terrorist organizations to operate in Iraq. Iraq's regime agreed. It broke its promise. In violation of Security Council Resolution 1373, Iraq continues to shelter and support a terrorist organization that direct violence against Iran, Israel, and western governments. Iraqi dissidents abroad are targeted for murder. In 1993, Iraq attempted to assassinate the Emir of Kuwait and a former American president. Iraq's government openly praised the attacks of September 11th. And Al Qaeda terrorists escaped from Afghanistan are known to be in Iraq.
In 1991, the Iraqi regime agreed to destroy and stop developing all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles, and to prove to the world it has done so by complying with rigorous inspections. Iraq has broken every aspect of this fundamental pledge.
From 1991 to 1995, the Iraqi regime said it had no biological weapons. After a senior official in its weapons program defected and exposed this lie, the regime admitted to producing tens of thousands of litres of anthrax and other deadly biological agents for use with Scud warheads, aerial bombs, and aircraft spray tanks. UN inspectors believe Iraq has produced two to four times the amount of biological agents it declared, and has failed to account for more than three metric tons of material that could be used to produce biological weapons. Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.
United Nations inspections also reveal that Iraq likely maintains stockpiles of VX, mustard gas, and other chemical agents, and that the regime is rebuilding and expanding facilities capable of producing chemical weapons.
And in 1995--after four years of deception--Iraq finally admitted it had a crash nuclear weapons program prior to the Gulf War. We know now, were it not for that war, the regime in Iraq would likely have possessed a nuclear weapon no later than 1993.
Today, Iraq continues to withhold important information about its unclear program - weapons design, procurement logs, experiment data, an accounting of nuclear materials, and documentation of foreign assistance. Iraq employs capable nuclear scientists and technicians. It retains physical infrastructure needed to build a nuclear weapon. Iraq has made several attempts to buy high-strength aluminum tubes used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. Should Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year. And Iraq's state-controlled media has reported numerous meetings between Saddam Hussein and his nuclear scientists, leaving little doubt about his continued appetite for these weapons.
Iraq also possesses a force of Scud-type missiles with ranges beyond the 150 kilometres permitted by the UN. Work at testing and production facilities shows that Iraq is building more long-range missiles that could inflict mass death throughout the region.
In 1990, after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the world imposed economic sanctions on Iraq. Those sanctions were maintained after the war to compel the regime's compliance with Security Council resolutions. In time, Iraq was allowed to use oil revenues to buy food. Saddam Hussein has subverted this program, working around the sanctions to buy missile technology and military materials. He blames the suffering of Iraq's people on the United Nations, even as he uses his oil wealth to build lavish palaces for himself, and arms his country. By refusing to comply with his own agreements, he bears full guilt for the hunger and misery of innocent Iraqi citizens.
In 1991, Iraq promised UN inspectors immediate and unrestricted access to verify Iraq's commitment to rid itself of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles. Iraq broke this promise, spending seven years deceiving, evading and harassing UN inspectors before ceasing co-operation entirely. Just months after the 1991 ceasefire, the Security Council twice renewed its demand that the Iraqi regime co-operate fully with inspectors, "condemning" Iraq's "serious violations" of its obligations. The Security Council again renewed that demand in 1994 and twice more in 1996, "deploring" Iraq's "clear violations" of its obligations. The Security Council renewed its demand three more times in 1997 citing "flagrant violations," and three more times in 1998, calling Iraq's behaviour "totally unacceptable." And in 1999, the demand was renewed yet again.
The United States helped found the United Nations. We want the UN to be effective and respected and successful. We want the resolutions of the world's most important multilateral body to be enforced. Right now these resolutions are being unilaterally subverted by the Iraqi regime. Our partnership of nations can meet the test before us by making clear what we now expect of the Iraqi regime.
If we, as many nations, do not take this moment in time to stand up against the many atrocities against the innocent in Iraq and around the world, our role as peacekeepers will go down in history as a futile attempt at working together.
We must work together to stop these horrific terrorist actions that occur daily in some part of the world affecting hundreds, if not thousands of innocent people. We cannot allow such events to hold us hostage, we must maintain the upper hand of peace. I implore you today: the American people, the many nations, and the UN leaders to come together in devising new "one chance only" resolutions and to begin the enforcement of them as a strong, multilateral force whose goal is disarm, protect, and secure peace in all nations.
I am here today to speak on changes--much needed changes to better serve our societies and to better protect the children of our future from the terror inflicted across the world as we know it today.
It is time, my friends, for us to sit together and work on these goals.
I have mentioned Iraq. I have done so for great reasons. We are not blind. We are not ignorant of the fact that there are people in that country suffering among the greatest atrocities mankind could fathom on a daily basis. The world is aware of the human suffering the civilians incur at the hands of a leader whose only goal is to appease himself. We have seen this type of leadership before in Germany and we were slow to step in--all of us--afraid to take a stand in unknown territory. But we all know what had happened there when a leader with such malignant goals is allowed time and space to continue in his path of destruction. We must learn from our past and step in when it is necessary and when it comes to the people in Iraq; it has been necessary for many years. Therefore, I am here today to bring to you--the American people, the nations, the leaders -- an offer that has not been achieved yet to date: A meeting of the nations to decidedly alter our stand as protectors in an ever-changing world, where the dangers of today far exceed the origin of our unity as United Nations.
We need to be stronger. We need to stand together and we need to use force if necessary to achieve our goal of remaining a United Power. It is time for us to turn the tables and use our dignified force as a means to an end to horrific regimes, suffering people, and atrocities the civilized mind cannot begin to comprehend.
I am here today to offer the beginnings of a new, stronger, United Nations; a powerful group of leaders who will no longer shy away from any group of terrorists, who will not idly sit back and watch our resolutions become the joke of many dangerous nations. It should become a powerful group of leaders who work together with commons goals to achieve and enforce our ideals of peace. And let it be a group of powerful leaders who are not afraid to take the initiative to use force where force is needed. We can take back our world; and this, my friends, is the time for us to do so.
I am here today to request a meeting of the leaders of nations to begin our new agenda in a new world. I am here today to work towards a new precedent for our existence. I am here today to tell the terrorists of the world that we, as world leaders, will rise up -- with force, if necessary, and yes, even preemptively -- for the protection of the children of this world and the next.
Saddam Hussein will be our first goal in our agenda. He is the reason terrorism exists in such a widespread manner and his continuing support for such horrific crimes against innocent people must be stopped. His goal of acquiring deadly and potentially far-reaching weapons of mass destruction must be stopped. All of this must be done now, before – again -- it is too late.
Next week, as I have suggested to the world leaders, a meeting will occur. This meeting will require great discussions, planning, and much work as a sole unit, but we will be successful--together. Saddam will be a terror of the past. Terrorism will be an event of the past. Fear will be an emotion of the past and peace will prevail.
We, as leaders, will ensure that this occurs and occurs swiftly. We, as delegates of the United Nations, have the power and responsibility to ensure the world is safe, prosperous and democratic; and in this time of challenges, we will rise to meet our criteria as leaders and enforce these responsibilities in a new and bold manner.
Today, my friends, is a day of great changes, great challenges and the promise of greater things to come--but it is all dependent on our coming together to face them together.
Next week, a new, stronger United Nations will be unveiled and the support of our nations civilians in such an abrupt change is required. Your support and faith in a new, peace-led world is the underlying strength behind our changes. We need you now as support for the changes to come. I know it will be hard to watch so many changes occur so swiftly. It will be hard to see force used in place of talks (where talks have failed endlessly before) and to see nations whose chains have bound them come into a free world where our support will be much needed, financially and otherwise.
Let us work together to ensure peace and freedom for all people of the world. This, my friends, is our goal.
Thank you