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...President Bush had been persuaded last summer to return to the UN for tactical reasons, to maximize support and legitimacy for a decision that the decision to deploy a quarter million troops suggests had already been taken. There's no question that the White House, and its European allies even more so, would have preferred UN authorization for war. But he was never going to make UN backing a deal breaker. Indeed, he fashioned his initial pitch to the UN on Iraq last September in form of a challenge: Back the U.S. in going to war in Iraq, or make...
...Britain joining the U.S. in invading an Arab country. It may also be aimed at making life a little easier for Arab regimes, such as Saudi Arabia, that oppose an Iraq war but look set to cooperate with the U.S. Thursday, for example, the Pentagon announced it would deploy cruise-missile bearing warships to the Red Sea, allowing their missiles to reach Iraq via Saudi airspace rather than Turkish airspace. Turkey has not yet agreed to allow its airspace to be used for missile strikes on Iraq; the clear implication of the move is that the U.S. expects no such...
...vote could mean a delay in war plans and might necessitate a smaller, less effective force's attacking Saddam's troops from the north. Forty ships carrying the 4th Infantry Division and its equipment have been awaiting orders to deploy to Turkey. If the vote stands, they will have to steam to Kuwait or other destinations to deploy by air to bases in Kurd-controlled northern Iraq--at least two weeks of extra travel. U.S. commanders say they can handle it. But the rejection is also a diplomatic blow that could set back U.S. efforts to get U.N. backing...
Bonifaz’ suit follows several unsuccessful attempts to take the ability to deploy troops out of the President’s hands...
...dark and unexplored territory. We understood when Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom and Ed White died in a fire on Apollo I’s launchpad; they were paving the way to the moon. But today, NASA’s job has become far less glamorous, even mundane; astronauts either deploy ultra-secret military satellites or deliver supplies to the international space station...