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...case of Iraq, he unquestionably thought the world would be a better and a safer place without Saddam Hussein. It was his view long before 9/11, but his words just three weeks after the 2001 attacks are worth recalling. "The kaleidoscope has been shaken," he said. "The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us reorder this world around us." Clearly, regime change was not a concept that Blair woke up to only in 2003. By the time President George W. Bush's determination to remove Saddam by force was fixed, I suspect Blair...
...right, Blair thought then - and believes just as strongly now - that his position on the war was morally sound and that the arguments he used to defend it were morally justifiable. It might be better if he were able to say that to the Iraq inquiry next week, but he's extremely unlikely to do so. It would be interpreted, with some justification, as evidence from his own mouth that he lied. Winston Churchill famously declared that in wartime "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." But that argument would not excuse...
...infamous terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda, which means "the base," is named for its position at the foot of a high, rugged mountain range in western Yemen. Still, residents joke that having Al-Qaeda in your passport makes it impossible to get a visa. And in a country better known as Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland, the site of the U.S.S. Cole bombing in 2000 and, most recently, the alleged training ground for underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the coincidence is lost on no one. (See pictures of the life of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...from 1966 to 1999. And yet, in the taxi ranks, sports bars and five-star hotels in Lagos and Abuja, there are more and more whispers wishing the generals were back. Not that people see a military regime as a good thing. But, say some, it might just be better than the dreadful present: a President, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, confined to his sickbed in Saudi Arabia for two months but refusing to hand over to his deputy; the government of Africa's most populous country adrift; a civil war likely to start again in the southern oil fields; hundreds...
...their utterances not to overheat the polity and create the opportunity for some crazy people in the military to take advantage." But Lai Mohammed, spokesman of the main opposition party, Action Congress, told TIME that while "we must never wish for a coup" and "the worst civilian government is better than the most benevolent military regime," it is true that "we are doing things that 10 years ago would have been a reason for military takeover...