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...Rather than simply a forum for coordinating positions, the UN has become the venue for a battle between contending ideas of how to deal with Saddam Hussein. The U.S. position remains one of demanding regime-change - underscored in flippant comments Tuesday by White House press secretary Ari Fleischer to the effect that the cheapest way to disarm Iraq would simply be the assassination of its leader. But even among those willing to pursue disarmament, the a priori goal of "regime-change" is not widely shared, and language as intemperate as Fleischer's - and more sober comments by other Administration officials...
...That's a little disingenuous; Gaza is estimated to be the world's most densely populated city, and civilian casualties in such an attack were inevitable. The strike was heavily criticized by U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan for precisely this reason, and even White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said Tuesday that "This heavy-handed action does not contribute to peace." Even in Israel itself, the decision to use a one-ton bomb dropped by an F-16 drew strong criticism, and even Israeli military officials called it an "error." Indeed, despite Sharon's lauding of the raid's "success...
...line. Bush has left it to his aides to fight over which of the two dramatically different approaches he will endorse. And fight they have. When Powell told an Arab newspaper that the Administration was leaning toward early recognition (which TIME reported in April), Bush's spokesman Ari Fleischer responded icily, "The Secretary, from time to time, will reflect on the advice that he gets and do so publicly." Powell, never known for getting ahead of his boss, has been more aggressive than usual, driving the process since early April, when Bush backed off his demand that the Palestinians...
...among his top aides on what policy course to follow, much less among Washington's allies in the Arab world and Israel; and second, the Bush compromise proposals being floated had already been pronounced dead-on-arrival both in Israel and the Arab world. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer insisted Wednesday that President Bush would make the speech when "it can do the most good." But given what Bush reportedly intends to say, and the current dynamic in the region, that may not be soon...
...placed his first phone calls to the leaders of India and Pakistan since the current standoff between the two nuclear-armed nations heated up in mid-May. The proposal to give Homeland Security Cabinet rank came after months of White House resistance. On March 19, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer declared that "creating a new Cabinet post doesn't solve anything...