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...Defense Department take charge of postwar operations in the new Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, naming Jay Garner, a retired Army lieutenant general and a friend of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's, as peace boss. State's top Iraq expert, Ryan Crocker, tapped to go to Baghdad as ambassador, may not take the job because so much postwar power would reside at Defense...
...Clinton Administration, says he cannot imagine Iraqis tolerating an American governor for more than a couple of months. Others say the real danger is not that the U.S. would stay too long but that it wouldn't stay long enough. Democracy, says Amin Huweidi, a former Egyptian ambassador to Iraq, can't be imposed on Iraq "with the push of a button. It's a building-up process that takes a long time." Many Europeans agree and see in Afghanistan the unsatisfying results of Washington's last invasion: a country still far from stable, democratic or even peaceful, now threatened...
...troops to the northern front of a potential war with Iraq. After months of negotiations between the two governments, the vote dealt a serious blow to the Turkish government's efforts to strike a deal with the U.S. "This is a definitive parliamentary decision," Turkey's ambassador to the U.S., Faruk Logoglu, told TIME Saturday. "It's very serious...
...thing that would most discomfort, and perhaps even destabilize, the precarious regimes of the Ayatollah Khamenei, Kim Jong Il and--for that matter--Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi? Why not just say, "We hereby grant you diplomatic recognition, whether you like it or not. We're naming an ambassador. We're lifting the embargo. We're going to let our companies sell you all sorts of cool American things like Big Macs and Hummers. This doesn't mean we approve of the way you run your country, but it's silly for us to deny that you're in charge...
...Mohamed ElBaradei, Powell made an emotional last appeal for support, telling the other ministers that the U.S. would never have come to the U.N. to begin with if it were hell-bent on war. Powell's speech may have softened the hearts of wavering member states: one U.N. ambassador at the lunch told TIME Powell's speech "inspirational...