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...launched. But he believes Saddam is surely far wiser about the strength of the U.S. "He had no respect for our military then," says the elder Bush. "He felt that we could not fight. Now he knows." What is worrisome to 41 is that the battle this time is murkier than in 1991. "In our case it was clearer because Saddam had invaded another country," he says. Weapons of mass destruction harbored and hidden within Iraq is a more difficult concept for the public to understand...
...only to pretend that this may be a "controversial" movie, worrisome to a jittery America. Can we live with its doomsday scenario? Of course we can. And hum a few bars of "Seems Like Old Times" while we're at it. There are murkier, scarier matters to bring to light - intelligently, we may hope and pray...
...week they clashed spectacularly. The big issue was how the United States squares its outrage at al-Qaeda fighters now in detention with standards of international law it has long espoused. For most Europeans, the virtuous course seemed clearly marked by the Geneva Conventions. In France and Italy, though, murkier struggles between government leaders and recalcitrant judiciaries showed that finding the righteous path can be a matter not just of principle, but of political dispute...
...deftly refutes this increasingly widespread belief, by subjecting the group he refers to as "China's awkward squad" to the same probing scrutiny he has applied so effectively to other Asian topics. Buruma makes a strong case that dissidents are indeed relevant, both for the ways they illuminate the murkier aspects of Chinese culture and for the role they might still play in China's political transformation...
...make matters murkier, the U.S. government is reluctant to share any evidence it may have. On Friday, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said publicizing evidence would compromise the investigation: "[The terrorists] would like nothing better than to be able to hide where they are hiding and have the U.S. reveal what we know and how we know it. We're just not going to do that...