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Democrats, however, are poorly positioned to exploit the tiny cracks in $ Bush's armor. To do that, the party needs attention-getting spokesmen who can make a persuasive case against the Administration. But no leading Democrat has yet dared accept the challenge of running against Bush. The party has fielded just two contenders, who so far seem weightless: Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder and former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas. When asked about their attitudes toward some Democratic candidates, 74% of those who took part in the TIME/CNN poll said they did not know enough about Tsongas to offer a judgment...
Saddam took aim first at the south, where he gathered the remnants of his defeated army and the armor that escaped the allies into a loyal force that rapidly overwhelmed the weak and ill-equipped Shi'ite insurgents. He dispatched two Republican Guard divisions that had been stationed around Baghdad to ensure the efficiency of the Iraqi troops that had failed so miserably against the allied coalition. This time it was the Shi'ite rebels who were doomed to failure. They lacked a joint command-and-communications system and were dependent largely on weapons and ammunition abandoned by Iraqi soldiers...
...agony. "Going after the helicopters would have been a symbolic gesture, not a serious way to change the outcome of the fighting," said an Administration official. The best U.S. intelligence estimates, he asserted, indicated that "Saddam could have put down the insurgencies even without helicopters by using his armor and artillery. If we were really going to help the rebels, we would have had to target tanks and artillery. That would have turned very quickly into full- scale fighting." And then to extricate its own troops the U.S. would have become involved in deciding who should govern Iraq, a treacherous...
...early scenes of the play, Costumer Phoebe Faux clothed the characters in World War II-era garments. Only Hamlet, dressed completely in black and his father's ghost, in armor, deviate from this theme. This idea, coupled with interesting staging, gives the text an appealing freshness...
...answer almost certainly is no. Doubtless Schwarzkopf's troops could have destroyed more of the troops and armor that Saddam is using to suppress the revolts that broke out almost as soon as the war ended. But that would have meant continuing a horrible "turkey shoot" of fleeing Iraqi forces after the war had effectively been won. The allies' goals were to drive Saddam's forces out of Kuwait and cripple Iraq's offensive military capacity. Both had been achieved before the 100 hours were...