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...series of speeches since Sept. 11, 2001, the President has shaped a "Bush doctrine" that commits the U.S. to do everything it can--including unilateral, pre-emptive military action--to eradicate international terrorism, reform the nations that support it and neutralize rogue states that seek to possess weapons of mass destruction. Much commentary on the Bush doctrine has stressed its toughness--the way, for example, that the Administration claims the right to take military action on its own, without U.N. sanction. All of this is said to be of a piece with the Administration's supposed arrogance in international affairs...
...seek to uncover whatever illicit weapons programs Iraq might have, few tasks are as urgent as determining whether Baghdad has obtained the smallpox virus. The only declared reserves of the 120 known strains of smallpox are in two labs, in the U.S. and Russia, but fears that Iraq may possess the virus have lately come to a head...
With those words last week at the entrance to one of Iraq's presidential sites, weapons inspectors in Baghdad made it clear they intended to go anywhere they wanted in the renewed hunt for weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein may possess. After a few minutes' hesitation by startled palace guards, the 23 U.N. and International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were welcomed in--to enter rooms, poke in closets, even inspect a store of marmalade. Iraq was making it just as clear that the regime intended to make a show of its cooperation with the onerous terms of Security...
...member of his infamous "axis of evil," U.S. President George W. Bush could not have anticipated just how far the Stalinist state would go to earn the label. While Bush's foreign policy team tries to stay focused on stripping Iraq of any weapons of mass destruction it may possess, the North's leader Kim Jong Il seems bent on demonstrating that his own regime is just as menacing. At least Saddam Hussein claims to harbor no biological, chemical or nuclear arms. Kim freely admits to developing nuclear weapons in violation of international accords. And last week, in an apparent...
...TIME: Has the Bush Administration thus far shown Turkey any evidence that Iraq does possess weapons of mass destruction that might threaten your country...