Barbara Boxer: “It is an unprecedented handout type of situation, which is offensive to me in many ways. This is a go-it-alone situation…”

“It is an unprecedented handout type of situation, which is offensive to me in many ways. This is a go-it-alone situation where it stands today. I will finish where I started this conversation about Iraq. We had everyone with us after 9/11--the whole world. We lost that. People around the world are looking at us, and many are saying this was something the President had decided and he just went to the United Nations because he was kind of pushed there--and as one of the people who pushed him there, I am glad he went there. Believe me, I give credit where credit is due. I give credit to Colin Powell. But going there and winking and nodding and saying, I am going to go to the U.N.--but really I know what I want to do--I will give a particular case in point. Whenever there is a little progress in finding some of these weapons, the President says things such as: Oh, that is the tip of the iceberg, and he may be right. But wouldn't it be better to say something such as: This is the tip of the iceberg, Saddam Hussein, and I am asking you to give us the rest of the iceberg, to do it now to avoid war, to avoid bloodshed. The world is watching. We do not seem to hear those words. What we really hear is: Inspections mean nothing. Maybe it means nothing, and if it means nothing, then the U.N. eventually is going to call this guy on it. They are going to call him on it, just like they did before.…”