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...flying off to London for a conference on Arab reform. He has faith in America. He thinks U.S. firepower will finish off Saddam, the U.S. will foster democracy in Iraq and freedom will spread throughout the region. Then he paused. "A prolonged bloody war, with lots of civilian casualties? It would be a MEGA-disaster. Rejection of any American involvement in the region will become ingrained in the Arab psyche...
...opinion. But his misgivings about the cease-fire 12 years ago have arguably had more of an effect on global politics than the certainties of those who are sure they were right. That man was Paul Wolfowitz, then Under Secretary for policy in the Pentagon, the third-ranking civilian under Cheney. He was 47 at the time and already a fixture in the Washington policy village, one of those men who spend their life flitting among government positions, foreign embassies and academia. Wolfowitz has served every President since Gerald Ford except Bill Clinton. A man of great personal charm...
Urban combat, chemical weapons, civilian casualties, guerrilla warfare, humanitarian crises in the south, instability in the north--whatever the unknowns that lurked ahead, the war machine was undeterred, as evidenced by the various units rolling across the desert, preparing to deliver the ultimate blow to the Iraqi regime. While each day that the war drags on gives the Iraqis a chance to regroup, it also grants allied forces the opportunity to reload. As the 3rd Infantry Division made its way past Nasiriyah, a long column of the 101st Airborne Division barreled out of Kuwait into the desert on a parallel...
This wasn't the terrorists' first suicide bombing, but never before had they successfully targeted a journalist. Two soldiers and a civilian were ripped apart on Feb. 26 in the same region, outside the town of Halabja, when a taxi passenger strapped with explosives detonated himself at a checkpoint. Afterward, Kurdish intelligence sources warned us that more bombers were aiming for journos and our hotel in Sulaimaniyah. American agencies also warned media organizations that intelligence traffic had picked up a threat against the press pack in northern Iraq. The Kurdish military increased protection for us, beefing up troops around...
...Despite limited censorship, producers know where the red lines are. Segments begin with violin-backed montages of injured Iraqi children followed by the words "Give Peace a Chance." Iraqi claims that the U.S. is dropping cluster bombs on civilian targets are repeated without skepticism, and there has been no mention of Saddam's past use of chemical weapons or his invasions into Iran and Kuwait. And the government has banned coverage of an even bigger story for China-the spread of a deadly new disease, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Reporters are setting the bar higher, but some news is still...