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President Names An Axis In A Speech To CongressJANUARY 28, 2002 · 11:16
In a speech to Congress, the president identified three governments as constituting an axis of evil and asked for congressional authorisation to use force against two of them. The third was mentioned in the same breath and then not referred to again for seven minutes.
THE HOUSE, DURING THE ADDRESS. EVERYBODY IS STANDING UP EXCEPT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE DISCOVERED THEY NEED TO SIT DOWN.
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THE HOUSE, DURING THE ADDRESS. EVERYBODY IS STANDING UP EXCEPT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE DISCOVERED THEY NEED TO SIT DOWN.
WASHINGTON, January 28 -- In his State of the Union address this evening, the president described Iran, Iraq and North Korea as "an axis of evil," and asked Congress for authority to use military force against Iraq.
The phrase was prepared in the White House. Officials declined to say who had chosen it, which is itself a sentence that would not have been necessary in 1999.
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Pennywises_Mom
Joined: Jun 2002 · Posts: 1577
· Dover, DE · 2 minutes later
i'm an english teacher and i have been asked about this phrase by four students this week. one of them thought it was from a film.
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KingOfTheNerds
Joined: Aug 2000 · Posts: 2210
· his mother's basement · an hour later
an axis of evil. that's what we're voting on. my grandfather fought an actual axis and he would have opinions and I am not printing all of them.
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Anonymous_Coward
Joined: Jan 2001 · Posts: 9999
· unknown · same afternoon
if you all think this means there's going to be a war then you haven't been paying attention, and if you think it means there won't be one, you also haven't.
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TheQuietOne99
Joined: Feb 2000 · Posts: 1899
· Leeds · that evening
when my father said the exact same kind of thing in 1939 he was quoting somebody in Berlin. that's all I'll say. that's all I'll say.
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formerly_of_3m
Joined: Oct 2001 · Posts: 967
· St. Paul, MN · the next morning
SPEECHLESS. ACTUALLY NO. NOT SPEECHLESS. GO READ THE TRANSCRIPT, THERE ARE THREE PARAGRAPHS IN IT ABOUT THINGS THAT WEREN'T EVEN ASKED ABOUT.
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