*EPF303 09/18/2002
Bush Pledges Iraq Resolution Language for Congress Soon
(White House Report, September 18) (140)

President Bush said he told congressional leaders at a White House breakfast September 18 that his administration would have language for a Capitol Hill resolution on Iraq in the next couple of days.

Bush said he thanked the leadership for its pledge to pass a resolution before recessing and engaging in re-election campaigning. He called an Iraq resolution "an important signal" of U.S. unity against the threat of terrorism.

In an Oval Office media availability after the breakfast, Bush answered a question concerning the difficulty of pursuing a U.N. Security Council resolution after Iraq����s offer to readmit U.N. inspectors, saying "reasonable people understand this is just a ploy ����a way to say to the world, ����I����m a wonderful, peaceful fellow���� when, in fact, he not only kills his own people, he����s terrorized his neighborhood and he����s developing weapons of mass destruction. We must deal with him."

(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)

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