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...battle plan, the military has raised some doubts; one officer estimates that as many as 1 in 3 senior officers questions the wisdom of a pre-emptive war with Iraq. The reasons aren't surprising: the U.S. military is already stretched across the globe, the war against Osama bin Laden is unfinished, and even if the march to Baghdad goes quickly, a long postwar occupation looks inevitable. The military's assessment of the chances of success are less optimistic than those of the Administration's theologians. So the sessions produced an inevitable compromise between soldier and politician...
Would Osama bin Laden still be on the loose if Sherlock Holmes were on the case...
...Unfortunately, this is far too simplistic: Osama bin Laden is still on the loose, and there is no omnipotent detective to bring him in. Though “Kingdom” can entertain at times, it completely misses the mark...
...Olmert: Don't expect us to release the money to the Palestinian government. This is a terrorist government and there's no way I can be sure that the money I release will go to the needs you want them for. They might go for financing terror - to Bin Laden, to Hezbollah - I have no idea. If we release the money it will not go through the Palestinian administration...
According to the website, Finkelstein told counterpunch.org: “Frankly, part of me says—even though everything since September 11 has been a nightmare, ‘you know what, we deserve the problem on our hands because some things Bin Laden says are true’. One of the things he said on that last tape was that ‘until we live in security, you’re not going to live in security’, and there is a certain amount of rightness in that...