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...also know what we don't know. And we know what the gaps are," Negroponte said. "What we've tried to improve since the WMD fiasco is building the safeguards" to avoid another fiasco of the sort that manifested itself in suggesting before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction...
...priority, the continued inability of U.S. or Iraqi forces to do anything to curb the power of armed militias has meant the slaughter has grown beyond anyone's control. The July death toll in the capital exceeded 3,400, making it the bloodiest month since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The escalating bloodshed has prompted the U.S. to send 5,500 more soldiers to the city - only weeks after 7,200 U.S. troops and 42,500 Iraqis launched Operation Forward Together, the latest futile attempt to bring a semblance of order to Baghdad. Among some military officers who deal with...
...Before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Iranian leaders felt their role in the region was incommensurate with its geostrategic location, educated population, oil resources, and proud national history. The fall of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein created new spheres of Iranian influence, in fact a whole new regional dynamic that has neatly granted Iran a short-cut to great power status it could not have dreamed of otherwise. The system establishment views its nuclear program as a way to entrench those ambitions, and ensure its own survival...
...Paton volunteered for the deployment knowing he'd miss much of the campaign and both elections. "This is something I can actually do to defend what I believe in," Paton says. "There's the whole argument about weapons of mass destruction, but I really just felt that what Saddam Hussein was doing was wrong, and we needed to finish the job that we had started years before." He adds that the first few weeks of session are usually devoted to issues like naming the state butterfly and not hammering out the state budget. The move also leaves his opponents...
...thousand dollars is more than enough for most displaced Lebanese families in Lebanon to rent an apartment for a year. During that year, Hizballah will rebuild all their homes, according to Hussein Kheireddine, the manager of Jihad of Construction, Hizballah's engineering wing, which in effect has become the largest contracting firm in Lebanon overnight. The Jihad of Construction plans to hire some of the country's biggest construction companies for projects that need to be done quickly, like removing debris from the streets before the autumn rains begin. But it will hire smaller companies from the most affected communities...