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Powell says he hopes to nail home that point by filling in "some of the gaps." One way to do that is to demonstrate tangibly how or where Iraq is systematically hiding weapons of mass destruction. Iraqi defectors have told U.S. intelligence they helped build mobile biological-weapons labs; Powell...
For Bush, this is both the beginning and the end of his case. So let's start where he does, even if it has become a cliche: 9/11 changed everything. Even the intellectual godfathers of the get-Saddam campaign admit that the terror assault showed America's enemies a new...
Once you buy into that fear, the rest follows a plausible logic. Few dispute Bush's characterization of Saddam as a brutal dictator who has attacked his neighbors, produced weapons of mass destruction and employed chemical ones. He has broken international law, mocked treaty commitments and flouted the U.N. The...
To the President, that means Saddam poses an unacceptable risk for the future of the U.S. and all its global allies. Better war now than after such an infamous day. The Bush Administration promulgated an entirely new national security strategy last September to enshrine the principle of using force pre...
Either option--Saddam's voluntary departure or a coup--would leave the U.S. with hard decisions and expose divisions among the allies. To satisfy the Bush Administration's ultimate aim of neutralizing the threat from Iraq, the Saudis propose that, as a condition for amnesty, Iraqi officials would have to...