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...Taking the Iraq issue back to the UN has always been, from the Bush Administration's point of view, a compromise. It bridged the positions of the hawkish elements reluctant to allow diplomacy or renewed arms inspections to slow the momentum towards invasion, and moderates who warned that the only basis for building international support and legitimacy for a campaign against Saddam is to make the central issue the danger posed by Saddam's defiance of UN disarmament resolutions. The threat of the U.S. acting alone if the UN demurs has proven remarkably effective in spurring the Security Council back...
...negotiating position, or a take-it-or-leave-it offer to the UN. And diplomats report getting mixed messages on that question from the Bush administration, with the State Department reportedly more inclined to negotiate a consensus in the Security Council in the coming weeks, while more hawkish elements hope to truncate the diplomatic detour on the road to a war they see as inevitable...
...subcontinent who can best understand each other's predicaments are not on speaking terms. Antagonists in the world's longest-running dress rehearsal for Armageddon, India's Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, now, surprisingly, face similar foes. India's hawkish Hindu fundamentalists pose problems for Vajpayee's coalition at home and call for war against Musharraf's Pakistan abroad. Pakistan's Islamic extremists now despise Musharraf as much as they hate traditional enemy India...
...screens this week, but with a dramatically different message: President Bush had no proof of any new weapons of mass destruction threat emanating from Iraq, Ritter says, and he was lying to the American people to get them to go to war. Once a favorite guest of hawkish Republicans who regularly invited him to testify at congressional committees about the dangers of turning a blind eye to Iraq's weapons programs, this week Ritter was instead addressing the Iraqi legislature, decrying his own country's claims - and warning that readmitting inspectors was the only way to avoid...
With the attacks one year in the past, Little says the hawkish attitude has faded and shifted into a concern about civil liberties...