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...clear sense of how a post-Saddam Iraq might be governed or how its territorial integrity can be maintained. Perhaps above all, outside the U.S. it's widely thought that unless an attack on Iraq is endorsed by the U.N., it will encourage nations to overthrow regimes just because they don't like them. Even in Britain, Washington's most reliable ally, a poll found 71% opposing military action against Iraq unless it is endorsed...
...argument from the GOP foreign policy old guard is based on the premise that if the U.S. invades Iraq with no Arab allies in support, the consequence could be a long-term violent backlash against American interests throughout the Middle East, including the overthrow of pro-U.S. governments by extremist elements. Also, they argue, Arab support may be even more critical in the task of stabilizing a post-Saddam Iraq, which could require a long-term occupation of the country by U.S. forces. But the Arab allies that supported the U.S. in the Gulf War have rejected...
...Iraq will chop off the head of anyone whose hand reaches its border." NAJI SABRI, Iraq's Foreign Minister, warning against any attempt to overthrow Saddam Hussein by military invasion...
DIED. WILLIAM PIERCE, 68, leading white supremacist ideologue best known for his 1978 racist novel The Turner Diaries, which imagines the violent overthrow of the Federal Government and was found among the possessions of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh; of cancer; in Hillsboro, W.Va. Alarmed by the civil rights movement, the ex-physics professor co-founded the National Alliance, the largest neo-Nazi group in the country...
...cities will break the pattern of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Whatever Washington's own priorities, its interventions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remain the benchmark against which Arab public opinion measures U.S. bona fides. And under present circumstances, the regimes in Jordan and Saudi Arabia may be risking their own overthrow if they now backed a U.S. attack on Iraq...