...State of the Union address, Bush signaled a paradigm shift in US strategic thinking, describing a need to 'prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening...friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction', and named Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as an 'axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world'....

...State of the Union address, Bush was more specific about the administration's new security priority: "To prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening...friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction." Three regimes, in particular, were singled out as being part of a supposed "axis of evil": Iran, Iraq,...

...of a far more lethal attack, this time with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons: "We will work to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons — or allowing them to provide those weapons to terrorists....

...and the establishment of terrorist camps. . . . My hope is that all nations will heed our call. . . . But some governments will be timid in the face of...mistake about it: If they do not act, America will. The president then identifies three specific "regimes that sponsor terror" and so, horrifyingly, threaten...

...besonders prominenter Stelle. In seiner Rede zur Lage der Nation sagt der Präsident am 29. Januar 2002: Our second goal is to prevent regimes that Sponsor...friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction. [...] Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to Support terror. The Iraqi regime...

...,Achse des Bösen' ('axis of evil'). Diese Achse gefährde den Weltfrieden. Deshalb gelte es, so Bush, „to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening...friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction [...l They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They...

...launched the current phase of the War on Terror. In the future, the president said, the United States must "prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening...friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction." In his address, he singled out three such countries: Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. "States like these,...

...allies were poised to desert the United States, "indifferent" [as he put it) to the threats at hand. "Some governments will be timid in the face of terror. And make no mistake about it: if they don't act, America will," Bush declared. In the speech, the central planks of what would be called...

...terrorist parasites that threaten their countries and ours. Many countries are acting forcefully... But some governments will be timid in the face of terror. And make no mistake: if they do not act, America will act.' 3 Given America's reluctance to engage in a meaningful international...

...frequently and purposefully conflated the war with other administration goals. Bush announced that "[o]ur second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor...friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction" (Bush 2002a), thereby extending the ambit of the war to Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and Syria and providing...