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That is true. It is also true that Iraq is not the only nation that either has such deadly weapons or would like to get them. North Korea, Iran, possibly Libya and Syria would all love to have the power that Saddam coveted. The unanswered question of the Iraq story is whether the ideas behind it will one day be used in other places too. --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Mark Thompson, Eric Roston and Douglas Waller/Washington, Mitch Frank/New York and James Graff/Paris
...most cases, the motivation is honorable - all of these regimes are terrible - but the overall pattern is hypocritical: Why shun Iran and yet recognize Saudi Arabia, which also funds terrorism and denies human rights? Why recognize Pakistan, which produces nuclear weapons and helped create the Taliban, and not recognize Libya, which has been trying to cultivate our approval for almost a decade? Does anyone actually believe we would be in worse shape now on the Korean peninsula if we were talking to the North Koreans...
Supporters of regime change in Iraq may be tempted to call the behavior of French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder embarrassing—but then, this is the U.N., where the bar for embarrassment is seemingly raised higher every day. Indeed, with Libya assuming the chairmanship of its Human Rights Commission, the U.N. has already slid beyond parody. That commission also includes such freedom-loving stalwarts as Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Syria, China, Vietnam, Sudan and Zimbabwe. How does one caricature an organization that allows some of the world’s most brutal, repressive dictatorships to lecture...
...Franco-African summit, hobnobbing with other leaders and enjoying, thanks to his hosts, the temporary suspension of his E.U. travel ban. Most Zimbabweans didn't notice he was gone. Nor did they when he jetted off to Southeast Asia on vacation or to Zambia for a meeting or to Libya to visit his friend Muammar Gaddafi. People are busy with other worries, like what to feed the family. You might only notice when Mugabe's convoy - jeeploads of soldiers and that shiny black Mercedes - speeds by on its way to the airport. (It's illegal now to make rude gestures...
Kreindler represented the families of victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan American Flight 103, over Lockerbie, Scotland, in a case that Libya settled for $2.7 billion...