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...request so ludicrous that it is almost comical. But that is exactly what the United States told Ph.D. candidate Omar al-Dewachi—a native Iraqi who has already undergone extensive background checks and been admitted to the U.S.—when he presented a Hussein-era passport. We fully support policies designed to increase national security and the rigid rules that come with them, but for cases as unusual as al-Dewachi’s—going back to Baghdad is not something a rational person would choose to do—exceptions should be made...
...1980s "the Al Franken Decade." In 1999 he published Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency, the myopically prophetic account of how he won the 2000 election and shortly thereafter lost the presidency (though his attempt to personally kill Saddam Hussein sounds like a natural poll-gooser, doesn...
...decisions for the country. Have the candidates who voted for the Iraq war demonstrated that ability? Why did they vote for war? Did they evaluate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's assertion that Iraq could have a nuclear weapon so soon? Did they not consider the possibility that removing Saddam Hussein from power might unleash a civil war among Iraq's intensely hostile ethnic groups? American voters need to understand what motivated those ayes in Congress. Elizabeth Terry Palm Coast, Florida...
...Stop obsessing about Iran" [Jan. 29] was unconvincing. Iraq's Shi'ite community could indeed form a fifth column in Iraq or at least form new alliances with Iran. Beinart observed that Iraq's Shi'ites have never launched a secessionist movement. That isn't surprising, since Saddam Hussein's suppression did not allow for much sectarian expression. Much of the pent-up anger under Saddam's regime is now finding an outlet in brutal daily violence. Iran will not hesitate to support an embattled Shi'ite community with all the means at its disposal - just look at Iran...
...intelligence on Iraq - outside of official channels - that now seems plainly wrong. The IG concludes that Feith's office, on a free-lance basis, made claims "that were inconsistent with the consensus of the intelligence community." The report said that Feith's shop exaggerated the purported links between Saddam Hussein's government and al-Qaeda. "That was the argument that was used to make the sale to the American people about the need to go to war," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the armed services committee. He said the Feith's work, "which was wrong, which...