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Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz took some heat last week when he appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The President had just announced that he needed $87 billion to finance postwar military operations--most of which, $66 billion, would fund the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. Wolfowitz's questioners wanted an explanation. "You told Congress in March that, quote, 'we are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction--and relatively soon,'" said Senator Carl Levin. "Talk about rosy scenarios!" Indeed, the architects of the Pentagon's postwar-Iraq plans were guided by several key assumptions...
...THINK PRESIDENT BUSH IS CONTEMPTUOUS OF THE U.N.? In discussions leading to the war, when the Council showed resistance, there were statements that the U.N. was irrelevant. I hope those statements were made in the heat of the moment and that as tensions have cooled down one realizes that this organization has a role to play and can serve the interests of all nations, big and small, and that there are issues no one nation--however powerful--can solve alone...
...Every implementation is problematic, it’s never easy,” says Kane. “You know that under the best of circumstances, things will go wrong and the road will get a little bumpy. A registrar’s office always takes heat for these kinds of service disruptions. That’s to be expected. The important thing is not to get discouraged by them, to keep your eyes on the horizon, the broader picture, and the ultimate goals...
...with their neighbors. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked his constituents to give rides to others if they had extra space in their cars, and people heeded his appeal; never before have I seen so many hitch-hikers picked up in Queens. Ordinary citizens devoted hours in the heat to directing traffic and preventing a clogged chaos. Others set up tables and served water along routes where many dehydrated commuters were walking. The blackout gave people the opportunity to feel good about themselves and those around them, rarely more aware that they were neighbors...
...that leaves the Bush administration in a quandary over how to respond. The administration's project in Iraq, if nothing else, necessitates U.S. involvement in mediating between Israel and the Palestinians. But the chosen recipe, premised on Palestinian 'regime-change,' has failed. Still, rather than turn up the heat on Israel, as Qureia is demanding, the U.S. has begun pressing the new prime minister-designate to carry out the crackdown on militant groups avoided by his predecessor...