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This is how battles will be lost and won in the 21st century, when everybody finds himself caught on the frontlines. The Commander in Chief alternated between private briefings on the progress in Kandahar and public statements that "I don't have anthrax." Vice President Dick Cheney was coordinating the battle and learning that his key staff members were on Cipro. When two postal workers died, Bush privately told people that he considered them casualties of war, just like the Rangers who had perished in Pakistan a few days before. Both wars became simultaneously more difficult and more disturbing...
...They tell us we're safe and don't need to be tested, but we don't believe them," a veteran letter carrier told TIME. "The President says he doesn't have anthrax. How does he know that? They must have tested him, but they're not testing us." People understand that there are some things health officials don't know, and others that they can't say. But the failure to protect mailmen as vigilantly as anchormen and Congressmen looked negligent on its face. Postal workers were furious that congressional aides--and even Capitol police dogs--who might have...
...could tell you what the strategy was, and with good reason. Events were moving so quickly that today's rumor was tomorrow's headline, and no one wanted to lock in a plan and then be caught off guard again. There was persistent dispute over whether the anthrax terrorists were domestic militants or Islamic extremists--which made nailing down a strategy all but impossible and surely unwise...
...suspicion that dare not speak its name. We know that Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq, has reason to harbor a burning hatred for the U.S. and anyone whose second name is Bush. We know that Iraq has the will and the technical capacity to "weaponize" anthrax. We know that in 1988 Saddam used chemical weapons against his own people. We know that for seven years his officials lied to, cheated and frustrated the United Nations-imposed regime designed to eliminate his capacity to manufacture weapons of mass destruction. We know there has been no inspection of Iraq's weapons facilities...
...answer that question. After an internal debate immediately following the atrocities, all members of the Administration have lined up behind a strategy of "Afghanistan first." A second wave, if it comes, may not involve Iraq. Last week law-enforcement sources tended to think the anthrax attacks were the work of a homegrown maniac, not a foreign terrorist. So far, little evidence suggests that the Sept. 11 atrocities were hatched in Baghdad. Sources say the British have insisted loudly that they see no intelligence to link the hijackings to Iraq. That is significant. The British (unlike, say, the French...