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US President George W. Bush said Thursday he will remind world leaders that "history has called us into action" against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
"We can't let the world's worst leaders blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons," Bush said in a Speech in Louisville, Kentucky.
Bush said he will begin "important discussions" with leaders of France, Russia, China, Britain and Canada in the next few days to explain the threat that Saddam Hussein poses to world peace.
"I take the threat very seriously. I take the fact that he develops weapons of mass destruction very seriously," he said.
"I will remind them that history has called us into action, that we love freedom, that we'll be deliberate, patient, strong inthe values that we adhere to," Bush said.
Meanwhile, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Bush believes the United States has "sufficient evidence" on Iraq's development of weapons of mass destruction to justify US military actions against Iraq.
"The president believes that the evidence that we have already seen is sufficient to require regime change," Fleischer said.
(China Daily September 6, 2002)
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