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...aboard Air Force One that Clinton confronted what had become his simultaneous preoccupation: Iraq. Later that afternoon, he took part in an hour-long onboard conference call with Vice President Gore and a group of foreign policy advisers that included National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Defense Secretary William Cohen, CIA Director George Tenet and General Henry Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the call, discussion focused first on the report that would be delivered later that day by Richard Butler, chairman of UNSCOM, the U.N. special commission that oversees weapons inspections in Iraq. In scathing terms, Butler...
...were as dubious of Clinton as he was. All the same, Livingston rushed that night to hold a press conference at which he underlined Republican backing for the mission. But even he was careful to say he supported "the troops," not the President. Late that same day, Defense Secretary Cohen, a former Republican Congressman and then Senator from Maine, responded to an invitation from senior G.O.P. House leaders to justify the attack from the well of the House. "The mood was fairly toxic," says Cohen. "There was a lot of anger there...
...veto when the U.S. and Britain acted alone,? he says. ?For the U.S., which doesn?t even pay its dues, it?s going to be hard to insist on having its way again. Iraq may simply cease to be a Security Council issue.? Which is why Pentagon head William Cohen is headed to the Gulf Wednesday for a Christmas visit with the troops -- they may be there for a long time...
...after withstanding a steady rain of bombs and cruise missiles that, according to Defense Secretary William Cohen, set Iraq's weapons program back at least a year, Hussein has vowed to fight on. Hours before Clinton called off the planes, Baghdad said it would now cut off all cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors. The White House countered that it would use force, if necessary, to keep those doors open. All of which sounds more than a little familiar. In the end, just as with the impeachment debate, we finish the year much in the same place we started -- but with...
BAGHDAD: The Islamic holy month of Ramadan began at dawn Saturday in Iraq, but that doesn't make a bit of difference to the Pentagon. "Bill Cohen's word all along has been that the U.S. wouldn't 'initiate' an attack during Ramadan," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But they won't stop now before they're finished." That meant a fourth round of air strikes in Baghdad Saturday...