Not Your Sweetie

Helen Thomas Rides Again (from the Horse):



HELEN THOMAS: Who in this country, beside the President and
his courtiers, want to go to war with Iraq?

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm not aware of anybody here who wants to
go to war with Iraq, Helen. But the President very much wants
to protect the peace by making sure that Saddam Hussein
cannot engage in war against us.

Q He's aware that there is widespread opposition to war in this
country?

MR. FLEISCHER: Do you think that the majority of the
Americans are opposed to war with Iraq, Helen?

Q I think so. What do you think?

MR. FLEISCHER: I think if you take a look at all the public
surveys on this issue, there's a lot of Americans who believe
that Saddam Hussein does, indeed, pose a threat. And they
believe --

Q They'll give their brothers, their husbands, their children?

MR. FLEISCHER: -- and they believe that if the President,
knowing what he knows, makes the determination that the
best way to protect the American people from the risks that we
have seen our nation is vulnerable to --

Q So he believes people want to go to war?

MR. FLEISCHER: -- is to disarm Saddam Hussein from having
weapons of mass destruction, the President will make a case

Q We have weapons of mass destruction. Eight other countries
have them.

MR. FLEISCHER: And how many resolutions has the United
Nations passed urging us to not have the weapons that we
have that have successfully kept the peace for 50 years?

Q How many other nations have defied U.N. resolutions and
gotten away with it?

MR. FLEISCHER: None like Saddam Hussein on a measure
that has been this unequivocal, where the world has called on
him

Q I could give you chapter and verse otherwise.

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm aware that you try to.

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