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...Although the first team of actual inspectors arrives next Monday and is expected to start visiting previously inspected sites two days later, the Dec. 8 deadline remains a moment of truth, or more correctly, the start of a countdown to a moment of truth. Some overly gung-ho reports in the U.S. media suggest that Washington will immediately cry foul if Iraq's declaration doesn't match the Bush Administration's suspicions of its WMD programs. It's not quite that simple: The inspectors are being sent back precisely to investigate any discrepancy between what Saddam says...
...Iraq issue, earning support could simply be a matter of shaking the body politic out of its complacency. Thanks to the Bush and Blair governments, the world is closer than ever before to removing weapons of mass destruction from the hands of Iraq’s madman dictator. Gung-ho for war? More like gung-ho for international peace and safety...
...suffer from a surfeit of purpose either. In the duel against Saddam, the U.S. plays a Gulliver strong on words and weak on will. Will it really go after the Butcher of Baghdad? Maybe. Or not. It all depends on who is talking. The Pentagon seems to be gung-ho on war, the State Department much less so. The military does not like wars it is not guaranteed to win with zero casualties. So the brass does what it knows best: leaking its doubts all over Washington. And Congress has launched hearings on a campaign that...
...problem runs deeper than a few ill-chosen comments. Some of the most gung-ho hawks in Washington have made the argument that toppling Saddam would facilitate an entire remaking of the Middle Eastern political equation on terms more favorable to the U.S. and Israel. And that's precisely the fear on the streets and in the corridors of power of the Arab capitals. Not that Rumsfeld is particularly concerned. On Tuesday, he went on the record disputing the characterization of the West Bank and Gaza as "occupied" by Israel, declining to criticize Israeli settlement activity there and trashing...
...faces such danger from Saddam's swelling arsenal of weapons of mass destruction that it will have to destroy Saddam sooner or later, they say it's better to get it over with sooner. This camp is led in public by Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and his fiercely gung ho deputy Paul Wolfowitz. But most longtime Bush hands agree that its vital spiritual leader is the backroom Vice President Dick Cheney, who gives this camp constant access to Bush...