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...months, Bush administration officials used the threat of nuclear terrorism to direct Americans?? fear of terrorist attacks towards Iraq, in an effort to rally support for invasion. According to the Los Angeles Times, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said on Sept. 9, 2002, “We don’t want the ‘smoking gun’ to be a mushroom cloud.” A month later, President Bush said, “The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.” As late as mid-March 2003, Vice...
...clubs are superior to any I have ever visited, the clothes are cheaper and the drinking age is 18. I will spend this July 4 continuing to immerse myself in the Spanish culture and appreciating my American roots even more. There will be no downpour, no fireworks and no Americans??but there probably will be a meal at McDonald’s, complete with tapas and beer, because I can’t order that at home...
Supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA), this bill calls for unprecedented industry-wide immunity from lawsuits and threatens Americans?? constitutional right to sue. The gun industry has tried to construe the new legislation as a safeguard against gun-control activists; general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation Lawrence G. Keane argues that the legislation would “prevent frivolous, politically motivated lawsuits...
...study, a survey of 1,007 adults over the age of 18, is part of a series of studies by the HSPH on the quality of Americans?? preparedness for the threat of biological attacks and warfare...
...security threat” variety. Having watched hundreds of their fellow citizens come to a fiery demise, most reasonable Americans deemed it necessary to destroy the al Qaeda network, and the Taliban regime that harbored it, in order to prevent future terrorist attacks. No doubt, countless thousands of Americans??the friends and families—of September 11th’s victims sought retribution. This, I believe, was also a reasonable position. What I do not think was a reasonable position was that of a fair number of Harvard students who decided to rally against military action...