2002 State Of The Union Address By President George W. Bush

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Many people have wondered how this conflict started. The issue could have begun with the 2002 State of the Union addressed by President George W. Bush. Bush noted an “axis of evil” and continued with a speech about possible terrorist states, saying “states like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world (Eubanks and Schaeffer).” A country that was categorized by Bush as a terrorist state was North Korea. Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state to Bush, continued this accusation in her 2002 speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee. Rice is quoted as saying “that North Korea was “the world’s number-one merchant for ballistic missiles, open for business with anyone, no matter