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...beauty and the beast--corporate pioneer in the once skanky wilderness but also chief symbol of the bland mass marketplace that the Square is today. It's not just the squalid 42nd Street of the '70s that has been wiped away. It's the rich, wild tangle of the prewar years. Traub is of two minds about "the stupendous contrivance" that Times Square has become. So are a lot of people. Nobody misses the junkies and peep shows. But can't we bring back some of that naughty bawdy, gaudy, sporty 42nd Street...
...raised in his past campaigns and always fluttered away quickly, an issue regarded as irrelevant after two decades or more. But it has become germane this time in a way it never was before because for the second time in as many months--first on prewar intelligence in Iraq and now on his military record--Bush is caught in a gap between what he has claimed and what he can prove. At the same time, he's gearing up for a fight with a probable Democratic nominee whose record as a Vietnam War hero helps buy him credibility to challenge...
...chemical weapons and biological weapons. I don’t see how they could have come to such an attitude if they had, at any time, studied the [inspectors’] reports.” The president is trying to pass off this discrepancy between reality and his prewar claims as a failure of the intelligence community. (The commission he recently appointed has been charged to investigate this so-called intelligence failure.) In doing so, he has deflected attention from the real question: Why did his administration continue to claim that Saddam possessed WMD after inspectors on the ground came...
...mood in his ranks. As a possible concession to the Democrats, Roberts has agreed to investigate the Pentagon's secretive Office of Special Plans, the shadow spy service that was assembled by neoconservatives who were determined to oust Saddam. Democrats want to study charges that Special Plans gamed prewar intelligence or sent questionable material directly to Cheney or other top officials...
Tales of machine-shop graft make clear that Saddam had a variety of secret ambitions, and, Kay said repeatedly last week, the Iraqis were doing all kinds of things in violation of international law. But the unspannable gap between the Administration's vast prewar claims and a thin postwar reality has irritated some members of Congress. Democrats complain that they had been duped, and in private some Republicans say they feel the same. Ohio Senator Mike DeWine, a Republican on the Intelligence Committee, told the Columbus Dispatch that he was not sure he would vote to authorize war with Iraq...