Bush’s message to Iraq is
played during prime time
WASHINGTON - President Bush warned
the Iraqi people in a television broadcast Sun
day they stand ‘ ‘on the brink of war’ ’ because
Saddam Hussein misled his countrymen into
invading Kuwait.
Bush, in a taped message from the Oval
Office, said, “Iraq stands isolated and alone.”
“Saddam Hussein tells you that this crisis is
a struggle between Iraq and America. In fact, it
is Iraq against the world,” said Bush, standing
in front of his desk with the American flag
behind him.
Iraqi television broadcast the Bush message
Sunday evening around 7 p.m. local time (11
a.m. EDT).
The White House had expressed skepticism
beforehand that Saddam would let his people
hear Bush’s words. But the Iraqi president kept
a promise to broadcast the taped message in
prime time.
“Our embassy in Iraq monitored this and it
appears that it ran in its entirety,’ ’ said a White
House spokesman, Sean Walsh.
The eight-minute broadcast was followed
immediately by an even longer rejoinder from
Saddam, read by a spokesman, that met Bush’s
words of warning with a mixture of ridicule,
disdain and defiance.
“Iraq finds itself on the brink of war,’ ’ Bush
said. But “war is not inevitable. It is still
possible to bring this crisis to a peaceful end.”
Bush pulled a paper from his pocket and
quoted the Iraqi president’s own words in a
Nov. 28,1988, speech saying “An Arab coun
try does not have the right to occupy another
Arab country.”
If Iraq invaded another Arab nation, “We
would want Arabs to send their armies to put
things right. If Iraq should become intoxicated
by its power and move to overwhelm another
Arab state, the Arabs would be right to deploy
their armies to check it,” Bush quoted Sad
dam.
Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2, prompting
the U.S.-led military buildup in the Middle
East and a United Nations-sanctioncd eco
nomic embargo. Bush told the Iraqi people ■
Saddam had misled them.
“Saddam Hussein has told you that Iraqi
troops were invited into Kuwait. That’s not
true, Bush said. Your own returning sol
diers will tell you the Kuwaitis are fighting
valiantly in any way they can.”
Bush taped his address last Wednesday after
an Iraqi information minister suggested Bush
would be given time on the country’s television
network, as Saddam Hussein has been by
American television.
The tape, including a voice-over translation
and captions in Arabic, was ferried by a State
Department courier to Baghdad and turned
over to the government there.
The Iraqi ambassador in Washington had
declined to take possession of it Thursday, but
assured Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence
Eagleburger it would be shown in full on Iraqi
television once it reached Baghdad.
The Iraqi rebuttal called Bush’s remarks full
of lies. Citing Bush’s call in a recent speech for
“a new world order,” the statement said Bush
fancied himself “the dictator of the whole
world.”
“Bush was trying to fool the Iraqi people
with certain words,” it said.
It offered no reply to what Bush called
Iraq’s “barbaric” holding of foreign hostages
in Iraq and Kuwait. But it scoffed at Bush’s
words about the “shameful” plight of foreign
workers stranded as refugees on Iraq’s borders.
These workers left Kuwait “because of the
U.S. threats of war,” Saddam said through the
spokesman.
To Bush’s argument that the world was
united against Iraq, the Iraqi leader called it “a
dispute between right and wrong.” The struggle
pits “the United States and its allies... against
Iraq and all Arabs and all Muslims and all
believers in the whole world.”
And it said Bush was naive to think he could
drive a wedge between the Iraqi people and
their president.
Bush said the United Nations sanctions against
Iraq are meant “not to punish the Iraqi people,
but as a peaceful means to convince your
leadership to withdraw from Kuwait. The deci
sion is in the hands of Saddam Hussein.’
“No one — not the American people, not
this president — wants war. But there arc times
when a country, when all countries . . . must
stand against aggression,” Bush said.
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