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Bush tells UN to decide by Monday
on war against Iraq
March 17, 2003 10:26 IST
US President George W Bush on Sunday gave the United Nations up to Monday to decide whether to support a war to disarm Iraq.
He gave this ultimatum after an emergency meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in the Azores Islands.
The UK and Spain fully back a military strike on Iraq, while France, Russia and Germany are bitterly opposed to the move. The rest of the nations are similarly divided on the issue.
The US is making sustained efforts to secure the support of a majority for its plan to attack Iraq to depose President Saddam Hussein.
Troops from the US and UK are massed around Iraq in anticipation of a military strike. The US has ordered its non-essential staff and families of diplomats to leave israel, Syria and Kuwait in another indication that war is imminent.
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Sub: US vs world
US ignoring the world's demand of peace by going to war with Iraq. It is the biggest mistake of US
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Sub: BUSH & busss busss busss buss
US is just trying to have a venue to dispose of all the weapons, it has developed over the years. All the talk of Bush ...
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Sub: Future of UNO
If USA goes to war without UNO backing and UNO takes no action then the future of UNO is bleak. I feel UNO should stand ...
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Sub: BUSH is faceoff of BinLaden & BUSH wanna spend $$ > what he earn
I think BUSH is another face of BinLaden. He is wasting the TAX money for war, which he/country doesnot achieve anything except spending my & ...
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Sub: Bush is the secret of war energy OR Saddam se jor ka jhatka dhire se..
Both Father and Son i.e.BUSH.... The son bush is intrested to complete father bush dreams which he was seen in earlier and we saw the ...
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