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...only speaks plain English, he speaks unafraid English. Consequently, he has reopened the Democratic Party--formerly a political nursing home--to idealistic young people. His position on the most important issue, the war in Iraq, still makes sense: there was no immediate threat and therefore no casus belli...
...into a real mess in Iraq. Despite last week's tepid support from the U.N. Security Council, the U.S. will not be receiving very much military or financial aid from the world because there is continuing outrage over America's unilateral decision to go to war. The original casus belli was, at the very least, oversold. The post-Saddam period has been marked by American arrogance and incompetence. The prognosis for Iraq is grave. It is not even clear that the three main ethnic and religious groups--the Kurds, Iraqi Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims--can be knitted into...
...said Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in January. "We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons," said Vice President Dick Cheney in March. That Iraq might have WMD was never the only reason the Bush Administration wanted to topple Saddam. But it was the big reason, the casus belli, the public rationale peddled over and over to persuade a skeptical nation, suspicious allies and a hostile United Nations to get behind the controversial invasion. And while that sales pitch fell flat overseas, it worked better than expected at home: by late March, 77% of the public felt that invading...
...have backed him up, so the more probable explanation of why no weapons have materialized is either an overestimation before the war or an incompetent search since. Better for Blair to be a fool than a knave, but not by much; if his judgment was faulty on his casus belli, his leadership will be suspect. Despite the paltry results so far of the search for Iraq's banned weapons, he continues to insist that his prewar WMD claims will be vindicated. "You are just going to have to have a little bit of patience," he said in Warsaw last week...
...When administration officials made their case against Iraq, their primary casus belli was the store of forbidden weapons of mass destruction that Saddam was allegedly hiding. "Iraq continues to conceal quantities, vast quantities, of highly lethal material and [the] weapons to deliver it," Colin Powell intoned during his presentation at the United Nations in February. After two months of looking, U.S. forces have yet to turn up any quantity of WMD, vast or otherwise, which explains why Fleischer and his counterparts at the State and Defense departments rarely mention Saddam's illegal weapons unless asked by reporters. In another recalibration...