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...vacationing President in Texas last month, argued for the need to go through the United Nations before marching on Baghdad. But Powell pitched it cleverly, says a senior State Department official, in a way that showed "how it would work without limiting the President's options." Vice President Dick Cheney reluctantly agreed, as did Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and then George W. Bush. After a long summer of internal commotion over Iraq, Powell scored his biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inspections: Can They Work This Time? | 9/22/2002 | See Source »

...president’s deeply skeptical response is not surprising considering that for months it has been clear the White House had no intention of accepting anything short of ousting Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. In August, Vice President Dick Cheney called a return of weapons inspectors “dangerous,” saying they would provide “false comfort...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, | Title: Saddam 2, Bush(es) 0 | 9/19/2002 | See Source »

...PHOTO ESSAY Dick Gephardt Hits the Trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voting and the States: Can Anyone Here Count? | 9/19/2002 | See Source »

...that the name “Osirak” would be “remembered and cherished by generations to come.” His speech was remarkably prescient, given the events of the past two decades. After the Gulf War ended in 1991, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney specifically thanked Israel for the 1981 action that had made victory possible. Indeed, the Economist magazine recently noted that if Saddam “had already had nuclear weapons when he invaded Kuwait 11 years ago, he might still be there...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Remember Operation Babylon | 9/18/2002 | See Source »

...small, pitching craft from the Flores town of Larantuka. Sometimes months go by without a single whale sighting, but if you happen to be present when a bull sperm whale is harpooned you will think you've been swept back to the days of Nantucket whaling and Moby Dick. Getting on a boat will require Ahab's dogged determination?the best way is to hop on a bus to Larantuka Harbor and, once there, negotiate with the local whalers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Cuts | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

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