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Of course the Bush administration could still decide to attack Iraq at a moment's notice, regardless of the timetable of UN Security Council discussions. U.S. military planners will soon have some 200,000 troops in the Gulf; Washington has secured basing rights in some key neighboring states such as...
Powell has warned against expecting any "smoking gun" evidence from his presentation. He may, of course, be diminishing expectations ahead of some unforeseen trump card. But taken at his word, he could sway the Council debate even without a smoking gun. Powell is on strongest ground where he is able...
Secretary of State Colin Powell's hour-long indictment of Iraq Wednesday has not changed the political dynamic at the UN Security Council for a simple reason: While most members may be inclined to accept at least a significant proportion of the evidence offered in Powell's vivid multimedia presentation...
The U.N. search has been going on for only two months, and Europeans across the continent say: Give it more time. France, Germany, Russia and China have all publicly and privately urged Bush to slow down. With the exception of the U.S., every one of the 15 members of the...
Rather than "smoking gun" evidence of Iraqi weapons programs, the U.S. and Britain have insisted in recent weeks that UN resolutions place the onus on Saddam Hussein to prove he has disarmed, and chief inspector Dr. Hans Blix this week testified that Iraq has thus far failed on this front...