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...there is a Bush argument for focusing on Saddam that has gained traction--and that's because it is tied to people's sense of security. Americans say the most compelling reason to disarm Saddam is that he has wantonly killed his own citizens. In the TIME/CNN poll, 83% of respondents ranked that reason as a convincing one for going to war. No. 2, at 72%, was that taking on Saddam would help eliminate weapons of mass destruction. Saddam's cruelty is a rationale Bush unleashed most powerfully in his State of the Union address, cataloging in some detail...
...months. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice suggested last week that one reason to invade sooner rather than later was that "uncertainty is unfair" to American allies in the region and to U.S. and British troops massing on the Iraqi border. While war opponents and even some proponents considered the argument offensive, it found traction here. The young troops who would be first into Iraq from the south are training to achieve peak physical and mental condition in the first few weeks of March. "We're building them up to the point where they are emotionally ready to kill," says Marine...
...even if the Pentagon may not need or even want much foreign help, U.S. armed forces do require other kinds of cooperation, like basing and overflight rights. This was most recently demonstrated in the long-running argument between the U.S. and Turkey over the price--literally--of allowing U.S. troops on Turkish soil. While the diplomats haggled, nearly three dozen ships started to ferry men and equipment of the 4th Infantry Division from the U.S. to Turkey. Under the war plans, the division is supposed to attack Iraq from the north. Diverting the Turkey-bound ships to the Persian Gulf...
Sakurov’s technical innovation is meta-historical argument: a refutation and rejection of Eisenstein, a reconsideration of Russia from czarism, through communism, to the present...
...powers of persuasion. Mexico, for example, has consistently backed "old Europe" in calling for inspections to be given more time. But on Wednesday, the Mexican government hinted it may be ready to shift its vote at the Security Council, not because it has been convinced by the U.S. argument but because it fears its dealings with Washington on issues such as trade and immigration will be negatively affected by voting against its neighbor...