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Rather than experience sadness and frustration, the masses who admired bin Laden's daring revolution would celebrate him and vow to avenge his death. Mobs might well take to the streets, despite the likelihood that national authorities would resort to force to suppress them. Mock funerals and special congregation prayers would no doubt be held in various parts of the Muslim world to herald the departure of another great mujahid in this open-ended war against what some Muslims call the infidels of all types...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Osama bin Laden: Islam After bin Laden | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...have also been stepped up. Propaganda leaflets are dropped daily, promising punishment or death to Iraqi troops who resist or who unleash chemical or biological weapons. In the Kuwaiti desert, Western camera crews that taped 3rd Infantry Division troops storming a mock Iraqi street were being co-opted by military media strategists, who privately say street fighting forms no part of the war plan. The exercises were designed to spook Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Troops: Ready, Set...Gone | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

Bush's critics, hearing the word, go ironic. They put evil in quotes and think of Dana Carvey's Church Lady: "Well, isn't that special, Saddam? Who's your little friend? Could it be Satan!!!???" They mock Bush for what they see as a primitive, frightening and atavistic use of a medieval term that should probably be banished from civilized discourse in a multicultural world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Meaning of Evil | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...contradictions of the “peace movement” crystallized for me when I saw a photograph of two bikini-clad Spanish women with mock suicide bomb cartridges strapped to them, holding a sign with “No Guerra” scrawled on it. The moral inscrutability of last week’s protesters is remarkable. How can one be for “peace” and yet ignore Saddam’s war on his own people or, like these women, support Palestinian war? How can one be against the accidental death of civilians during...

Author: By Andrew P. Winerman, | Title: The Fallacy of ‘Peace’ | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

...Bush's critics, hearing the word, go ironic. They put evil in quotes and think of Dana Carvey's Church Lady: "Well, isn't that special, Saddam? Who's your little friend? Could it be Satan!!!???" They mock Bush for what they see as a primitive, frightening and atavistic use of a medieval term that should probably be banished from civilized discourse in a multicultural world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Meaning of Evil | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

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