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Article: Rice Calls Security Council's Actions 'Appeasement'
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- The Washington Post
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- February 17, 2003
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National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the
United Nations Security Council was aiding Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein's efforts to weaken international will against his country
and compared the reluctance of France and others to support war
against him to appeasement of Nazi Germany before World War II.
"Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more
time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply" with U.N.
disarmament resolutions, Rice said, "it plays into the hands" of
Hussein.
"We need to remind everybody that tyrants don't respond to any
kind of appeasement," she said. "Tyrants respond to toughness. And
that was true in the 1930s and 1940s ...