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...with many hard-liners who now work in the younger Bush's Administration, the B Team was spoiling back then for bigger defense budgets and a more aggressive foreign policy. It found many of the CIA's conclusions about the Soviet Union softheaded and naive. Its final report helped launch the Reagan-era defense buildup of the 1980s. Rumsfeld also chaired a bipartisan commission in 1998 set up by Congress to assess the pace of rogue states' missile efforts, which concluded that the CIA wouldn't be able to gather intelligence quickly enough to meet the unseen threats posed...
...victors always write the history, and that means they can rewrite the war's causes. Even without WMD, the mass graves discovered in Iraq prove that Saddam was a despot worthy of toppling. For many--including some in the Administration--that did not seem a sufficient reason to launch the last war. But until the missing weapons are found, it could be a long time before an American President will be able to rely on his interpretation of intelligence data to launch another war. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr., Timothy J. Burger, James Carney, John F. Dickerson and Mark Thompson/Washington...
Creating a special medical court is an ambitious undertaking that will be opposed by trial lawyers at every step. But proposals to launch pilot projects at the state level are being drafted in the Senate. We don't really have a choice. American health care is out of control...
...mission, set for launch on Monday of this week, was scheduled to be the first off the blocks, but it is the U.S. missions, scheduled for lift-off on Sunday, June 8, and Wednesday, June 25, that are likely to generate the most buzz--and not just because NASA has had 45 years to master the media spin cycle. What will make these expeditions stand out is that each will set loose on the Martian surface a remote-controlled rover even smarter and more photogenic than the miniature robot that captured the world's attention during the Pathfinder mission...
Meanwhile, American Racing, the country's biggest custom-wheel maker, has seen sales of its big wheels grow 40% over the past year and is preparing to launch a second plus-size line called Twenty Inches Strong. Like several of its competitors, the company, based in Rancho Dominguez, Calif., debuted a 26-in. wheel long before there was a "street-legal" tire to go with it. (South Korea's Kumho Industrial started shipping a 26-in. tire last month, the first to meet federal testing requirements.) The good news for Detroit is that big rims are finally maxing out. Bazo...