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...axis of evil appeared ready to sue for peace last week. Saddam was still having "Is it live or is it Memorex?" moments, but his government was gone from Iraq. North Korea suddenly agreed to the American demand for multilateral talks about ending its nuclear-weapons program (even though Pyongyang promptly announced the program was proceeding). Even proud Iran was making conciliatory noises. The newspapers in Tehran were hot with argument over a proposed public referendum on whether to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Great Satan. The idea was floated by former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the cleverest...
...politics; he was hoping to reinvigorate his flagging, centrist political party for next year's parliamentary elections by appealing to Iran's pro-American, pro-reform majority. But make no mistake: none of this would be happening were it not for George W. Bush. He invented the axis of evil. He decided to make war on Iraq. He has plainly scared the bejeezus out of North Korea, Iran, Syria - and, oh yes, out of the Democrats too, who seem to be on the precipice of one of their periodic, nausea-inducing journeys into self-loathing and anomie...
...Jordan surely meant well. Most of us would err on the side of protecting a colleague's life. And there's nothing evil about wanting to report from Iraq - especially in the '90s, when America was focusing like a laser beam on its own navel. But precisely because for many of those years there was no Fox News, no MSNBC and no al-Jazeera, CNN's reporting - and omissions - had even greater influence in shaping perceptions of Iraq, particularly in the Middle East. If it couldn't tell viewers how its newsgathering was shaped by implicit death threats...
...Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and Samaritan's Purse, which is run by evangelist Franklin Graham. Both operations are associated with sharp criticism of Islam, the faith of 97% of Iraqis. Graham, who gave the invocation at George W. Bush's Inaugural, has called it a "very evil and wicked religion," and a former SBC president dubbed Muhammad a "demon-possessed pedophile...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell. "He's been working this personally and carefully with the Chinese," says a senior State Department official. Still busy tidying up after the last regime change, the U.S. needs more than anything to find a peaceful way to convince this Axis of Evil member to give up its weapons of mass destruction...