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...failure to get United Nations backing for the war gravely undermined the chances of ever winning Arab official or public support for the war. Some Arabs may differ over whether the Bush administration launched the war for oil, Israel and world domination, or for the sake of disarming a madman who possesses weapons of mass destruction. Either way, most reject Bush's calculation that America's aims are worth the human and political toll the war is taking. Daily footage of funerals and hospital wards shown on Arab satellite channels is only confirming the worst Arab fears. The Iraqi resistance...
...neither ghoulish nor an expression of Bush's propensity to identify evil in the world. The point, says this adviser, is that Bush thinks Saddam is insane. "If there is one thing standing between those who want WMDs and those who have them," says this source, "it is this madman. Depending on the sanity of Saddam is not an option...
...course, the tourists don't know any better. They've never been held hostage by a twitching madman at the business end of a methamphetamine binge, who changes lanes like Elton John changes costumes and thinks cries of "slow down" mean "go faster." It's unlikely they have seen what the side of a bus can do when it becomes intimate with a tuk tuk's flimsy frame...
...madman, armed to the teeth, holds thousands of people hostage. This is exactly the situation that exists with North Korea; it is holding South Korea and Japan at gunpoint. Etienne Forest Tsukuba, Japan...
...Liam Neeson than Stephen King) and behavior (late nights and drugs) certainly did. "He probably elicits more extreme responses than any other person in publishing," says an executive from a rival house. Byng is used to it. "I am the same person if people say I'm a hedonistic madman or an innovative publisher." Besides, a wild streak can be an advantage in Byng's line of work. At least five major London houses turned Pi down, and although Faber and Faber had made an offer equal to Canongate's, Martel says that it was Byng's personality that made...