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...Fallujah Erupts Your report on the sadistic and brutal killing of four American civilian security guards in Fallujah, Iraq, was a reminder of how horrific war can be [April 12]. Perhaps in the future we should think more carefully before waging it. The Vietnam conflict taught Americans not go to war without sufficient reasons. It is a lesson that we remembered for many years. And when we forget it, we fight wars we don't have to, and Americans die needlessly. Wayne Michaud Bristol...
...important social and economic indicators over the past two decades. It is also establishing an Independent Anti-Corruption Commission, an Ombudsman and an Independent Human Rights Commission. Progress is slow but perceptible. The government has not stood idle on the law-and-order front. It launched a massive army-civilian police action called Operation Clean Heart to curb terrorism and economic crimes. It is reforming the police force and passed the Speedy Trial Act for quick dispensation of justice. Your article has done a major injustice to a country that is forging ahead as a functioning democracy despite huge constraints...
With reversals of fortune come reversals of policy: having initially dissolved the Iraqi army and purged civilian ministries of most members of Saddam's Baath Party, Pentagon officials reversed course--they deny it is a policy change--and began inviting them back in hopes of drawing on much needed expertise. Despite President Bush's vow that the June 30 deadline for handing sovereignty back to Iraqis was cast in stone, Administration officials on the Hill were slicing the definition of sovereignty. The interim authority could make no laws, they said, and even Iraqi troops would remain under American control...
There was good reason for the Americans' hesitation: the prospect of a full assault on the city was having repercussions across the country, where moderate Iraqis were watching Arab TV stations that claimed there had already been hundreds of civilian casualties in Fallujah. At Friday prayers in Baghdad, at least one prominent Sunni cleric called for an uprising in the Sunni areas if Fallujah was attacked...
...capacities as head of U.N. Peacekeeping and later as Secretary-General, Annan has been at the center of many successful U.N. projects and has catalyzed fundamental changes in the scope of the organization’s peacekeeping operations. He promoted a changeover to civilian government in Nigeria in 1998, assembled an international response to the 1999 conflict in East Timor, established an ongoing mission on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border in 2000—largely restoring security after a war that killed tens of thousands—and worked to verify Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon that same year...