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...case for going to war without delay was always couched in terms of Iraq being "a grave and gathering danger," and so far, reports suggest, Kay's group has not, thus far, come up with the goods to support that case. Which means that his preliminary report comes at a bad time for the White House and 10 Downing Street. Just this week, polls find President Bush's domestic approval ratings at an all-time low of 49 percent, while his administration faces increasing difficulty in convincing his electorate and legislature to underwrite his commitments of American life and treasure...
...well as the left. Nazi and fascist characterizations of America barely differ in either tone or content from those of the extreme left. During the Cold War years, the presence of the Soviet threat—perceived a greater evil—muted disdain for America. But once this danger disappeared, old antipathies reemerged with new strength in a Europe that was about to embark on an unprecedented state-building process of a scale and scope unmatched in human history...
...document, labeled “Top Secret and Urgent” and dated Feb. 19, 1998—the day after President Clinton gave a major Pentagon speech on the danger posed by Saddam—contains a letter outlining a proposed visit by a bin Laden operative to Iraq from Sudan. Baathist officials hoped the trip would allow them “to gain the knowledge of the message from bin Laden and to convey to his envoy an oral message from us to bin Laden.” And what would that “oral message?...
...Military preemption must be a part of the U.S. arsenal, but only when danger is grave and imminent, or else it will result in unexpected casualties, costs, and consequences, as have seen in Iraq,” Perry said...
...American narrative presented by President Bush, the U.S. acted decisively while others dithered in the face of danger, and now it is nurturing an exemplary democracy in a region mired in autocracy and economic stasis. But for many other UN member states Iraq is not free but occupied without international consent. And the President's suggestion in passing that the Palestinians ought to learn from what the U.S. is doing and jettison their elected leader, Yasser Arafat, won't have helped him persuade the skeptics. At the UN, after all, Bush is even more isolated on the question of Arafat...