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...most of Iraq in allied hands, the search is intensifying for Saddam's suspected chemical and biological weapons. Their discovery and destruction remain the chief reasons given by the Bush Administration for going to war. "We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said last week. "This is what this war was about and is about." But the hunt has not yet produced a smoking gun. Coalition forces are only beginning to work their way through the hundreds of locations identified by U.S. and British intelligence agencies as possible WMD production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons: The Search For The Smoking Gun | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

When White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was asked who at the moment was in charge in Iraq, he answered, "The taste of freedom." The sudden, gaping absence of a police state produced a spectacle of chaos magnified by the presence of a thousand cameras to capture it. As looters rolled down the street with their bathtubs, carts full of ceiling fans and chandeliers liberated from government buildings, they insisted that they were retrieving goods stolen from them over many years of kleptocracy. It was as though they needed to find their own way to take the regime apart, brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Cheering Stops | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...believes that this is the moment for the American Left to reclaim its country. But, Gitlin says, in order to reclaim America, the Left must first rescue it from administration officials like Ari Fleischer, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld...

Author: By Jessica E. Gould, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leftist Advises Radical Followers | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

...goriest, least flattering light - the Pentagon chose targets and strategies to reduce blowback in the Muslim world, even at some military risk. After U.S. troops entered Baghdad, the war continued to be waged through TV. George Bush and Tony Blair took to Iraq's commandeered airwaves, press secretary Ari Fleischer began a White House briefing by announcing exactly when and for how long Bush watched TV the morning the statue fell, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged reporters to fan out and get the stories of Iraqis who could now speak without government oversight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worth a Thousand Words | 4/16/2003 | See Source »

...opening night has vanished. A presidential adviser said aides were trying to concentrate on their work while glued to their televisions. "They're very, very somber," the adviser said. Before Bush's speech at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., last Wednesday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters aboard Air Force One that Bush would declare the war was progressing "ahead of schedule." But Bush decided to scratch that sentence from his speech, eliciting private criticism from an Administration official, a rarity in Bush's Washington. "It made it sound like we were less optimistic than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sticking To His Guns | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

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