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President Bush backs up his claim by stating that Hussein repeatedly and unabashedly broke numerous agreements with the United Nations. For example, in 2001, the "United Nations 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."" Therefore, Saddam Hussein should not be trusted to uphold other treaties, such as the upcoming U.N. weapons inspections.
Although there is not much need for qualifiers in this speech because of the audience's need for data and logic, Bush uses one instance by stating, "My nation will work with the U.N. Security Council on a new resolution to meet our common challenge. If Iraq's regime defies us again, the world must move deliberately and decisively to hold Iraq to account. The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced--the just demands of peace and security will be met--or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.".
In Bush's statement regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which also ties in with the Middle Eastern controversy, Iraqi regime change and the war on terrorism, Bush has a built in rebuttal to his opponents" arguments, saying that there can be no peace for either side without freedom for both. He also goes on to say that America stands behind a democratic Palestinian state living in peace next to an Israeli state, but a Palestinian state without Yasser Arafat as the leader. .
President Bush uses many rhetorical techniques to strengthen his argument that Iraq is a threat not only the United States, but to the world. Bush begins by using repetition using the word challenged four times in three paragraphs. Bush starts off by saying "Today, these standards, and this security, are challenged." Bush then reiterates this by going on to say, "Our commitment to human dignity is challenged by persistent poverty and raging disease.