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...opening behind the scenes between what U.S. officials were alleging in public about Iraq's nuclear ambitions and what they were saying in private. After Tenet left a closed hearing on Capitol Hill in September, the nuclear question arose, and a lower-ranking official admitted to the lawmakers that the agency had doubts about the veracity of the evidence. Also in September, the CIA tried to persuade the British government to drop the allegation completely. To this day, London stands by the claim. In October, Tenet personally intervened with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's deputy, Stephen Hadley, to remove...
...Hussein didn't allow weapons inspectors into his country, he said, and therefore the U.S. was forced to go to war. If Blair had made the same charge, he would have been heckled into the floorboards during Question Time. He nearly was anyway, but when he arrived at the Capitol he was treated to America's upside-down version of that ritual, in which members of Congress interrupt only to show how much they fancy you - and they fancy Blair a lot. His arrival was greeted with whistles and applause. Eager faces full of laughter greeted his smallest quip...
...nearly was anyway, but when he arrived at the Capitol he was treated to America's upside-down version of that ritual, in which members of Congress interrupt only to show how much they fancy you - they did so 31 times in his 35-min. speech. Blair's arrival was greeted with such whistles and applause his opening line could have been: "My fellow Americans...
...Blair and Bush, plotting the future of their Iraq operation is far more important than dwelling on its history. Even as he sang Bush's praises in the Capitol, Blair issued an unmistakable warning: The U.S. can win wars alone, but to win the peace it needs more allies. Even before the war, the British leader had pushed for the United Nations to be given a dominant role in reshaping Iraq, but was forced to settle for the limited and largely symbolic UN role conceded by Washington's hawks. But now that the occupation mission has proven far more arduous...
...extended troop deployments caused families back home to wince, the cost of the operation may be having a similar impact on Capitol Hill. Having told legislators in April that Iraq would cost $2 billion a month, Rumsfeld last week admitted the real monthly cost was proving to be closer to $4 billion - and, of course, the likely duration of the mission now seems considerably greater than Pentagon planners had envisaged before the war. Taken together with the $1 billion a month to keep some 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan (without whose presence the Karzai government is unlikely to survive...