Bush: Iraq is enemy; Voices in Wilderness condemn US threats
Iraq-USA, Politics, 8/12/2002

Chief of the Voices in the Wilderness Organization Kathy Kelly denounced the US accusations and threats against Iraq as an attempt to control oil and riches of the region.

She told INA "that America practiced hypocrisy in its policy. At a time America was talking about removing weapons of mass destruction in other areas, it (itself) possesses such weapons. America refused to hold dialogue with Iraq and put pressure on the United Nations to make the dialogue failed and to avoid reaching an agreement. It also contributed to suspend dialogue earlier made in Vienna."

Kelly said that "America attempts to find justifications to launch aggression on Iraq. However there is no evidence against Iraq to justify aggression," INA reported today.

The US president George Bush said on Friday about Iraq "I described them as the axis of evil once. I described them as an enemy until proven otherwise. They obviously, you know, desire weapons of mass destruction. I presume that he still views us as an enemy. I have constantly said that we owe it to our children and our children's children to free the world from weapons of mass destruction in the hands of those who hate freedom. This is a man who has poisoned his own people, I mean he's had a history of tyranny."

"The National Assembly sent the invitation to the US Congress as a Legislative Body, not to the US administration, and we are still waiting for an answer," Hammadi said in the statement.

Meantime, Iraq's speaker of the National Assembly Hammadi said "we are not concerned about what was said in the White House because the letter was not addressed to it." On Monday, Hammadi sent a letter to the US Congress and "invited the US Congress to send a delegation to Baghdad to see whether US allegation that Iraq is producing weapons of mass destruction is true or false,INA said reported "The US fact-finding team would be given every facility needed to search and inspect a"y plants and institutions allegedly engaged in banned weapons programs," Hammadi said in the letter. Also, the Director-General of National Monitoring Department Hussam Mohammed Ameen said according to INA that "all sites, which were believed to carry out activities that contradict UN resolutions, are open before all media and correspondents and anyone wants to see firsthand the false allegations uttered by the United States to justify aggression on Iraq."

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