United States 'desires peace,' Bush tells UN - Globe and Mail

PAUL KORING WASHINGTON -- The United States seeks peace, not war, President George W. Bush said yesterday in a conciliatory speech aimed at calming hundreds of millions of Muslims. "My country desires peace," he told world leaders in a 20-minute address to the United Nations. While acknowledging that the world is rent by "a great ideological struggle," the President insisted it isn't a clash between the West and Islam. "Extremists in your midst spread propaganda claiming that ...