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...seems as if just about everyone has questions these days about the missing WMD. Did U.S. intelligence officials--or their civilian bosses--overstate the evidence of weapons before the war? And if some intelligence officials expressed skepticism about WMD, who ignored them? For the past several weeks, the usually lockstep Bush Administration has done its best to maintain a unified front in the face of these queries. Whenever asked, Administration officials have replied that the weapons will turn up eventually. But as the search drags on through its third largely futile month, the blame game in Washington has gone into...
...primary economic prize over which generals, demagogues and warlords competed - and control over those resources often fueled further repression and war. The problem confronting most peacekeeping missions in the region is that warfare has often become a source of livelihood for thousands of young men for whom the civilian economy provides few prospects...
...That's because for all the reasons the Bush Administration went to war in Iraq, retreat is not an option. The implications of the President's commitment may have been clarified in reports Wednesday that his viceroy in Baghdad, Paul Bremer, has asked Washington to send more troops and civilian administrators to Iraq to help turn around the security and infrastructure crises there. Key senators from both parties have been warning in recent weeks that success in Iraq will require more troops, whether sent by the U.S. or by its allies...
...Number of civilian health workers that federal officials said should be vaccinated for smallpox...
...Average daily temperatures in Baghdad now are upward of 110 degrees, and U.S. troops who had hoped to be home in time for July 4th cookouts instead find themselves facing an enemy indistinguishable from the (often hostile) civilian population. And the enemy's strategy is to avoid ever presenting himself as a visible target, hoping to sap American morale and alienate the U.S. from the local population through hit and run attacks, and sabotage of reconstruction efforts...