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...enlargement, "they have lost this precious status," says Christoph Bertram, director of the Institute for International Politics and Security in Berlin. "The rest of the European Union no longer automatically regards their decisions as in the interest of Europe." When they couldn't pull all of Europe into the antiwar camp last year, Chirac grew annoyed and said those who disagreed had "missed a good opportunity to keep quiet." Now, he and Schröder know that "if they want a consensus, they need the British view," Bertram says. Case in point: the deal reached last December to have...
...political statement, Canadians looked first at the practical risks. Beef isn't dangerous. This is a matter of faith as well as common sense. Jesse Heffring Montreal Remembering "King" Alan Your milestone on the death of actor Alan Bates did not include his starring role in the 1960s antiwar film King of Hearts [Jan. 12]. Unfortunately, its message is still timely almost 40 years later. I am a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and this is the only war movie I own (other than The Lord of the Rings). Bates will always be the "King of Hearts...
...update what intelligence services knew about Iraq's activities. The presence of the inspectors also functioned as a block on any ongoing WMD activities. But the Bush team had plainly planned to go to war regardless of what the inspectors found, or didn't find. For those among the antiwar Europeans who actually believed Saddam may have retained some WMD capability, the inspections were a valid strategy. After all, the U.S. and Britain could use their intelligence on Iraq's capability to point the inspectors to the suspect sites. But from very early on, chief inspector Hans Blix complained that...
...rift with Europe - the Europeans are hardly going to be convinced by Vice President Cheney's plea for moving on at the same time as insisting that the Iraq invasion was a timely and prudent preemption of a "grave and gathering danger". Powell appears to be acknowledging that the antiwar Europeans may indeed have been right, or at least that the outcome of the conflict has not exactly repudiated their opposition...
...sure, even some of the key antiwar Europeans believed Saddam may have had some WMD capability. The intelligence agencies of Germany and France may have been as surprised as the CIA by the complete absence of any such weapons in Iraq. All of them will, no doubt, be following the U.S. and British lead in reviewing their own intelligence-gathering processes. But while such reviews are clearly urgent, they don't answer the question of how and why the Bush administration led America into war against what now appears to have been a phantom menace, or at least a tragically...