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...Cheney took the country into a deadly, costly and open-ended war on flimsy evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Yes, Congress went along. And yes, the public on balance supported it. But no one was more responsible than the Vice President for pushing the limits of the prewar intelligence that did all the convincing. And when former ambassador Joseph Wilson questioned the credibility of that intelligence - and the motives that helped polish it - it was Cheney who led the fight to bring him down...
...been cool to refugees before. In World War II, Secretary of State Cordell Hull infamously declined to accept Jewish Holocaust refugees, adhering instead to prewar immigration quotas. Thirty years later, the U.S. watched as a crisis built ahead of the April 1975 collapse of South Vietnam, in part because 54% of Americans were against admitting Vietnamese who were fleeing the communists...
...first time since 1972, when Iraq nationalized the oil industry. In theory, that could finally fix Iraq's shambolic oil sector, whose infrastructure has been crippled by decades of wars and sanctions. Production these days hovers around 2 million barrels a day, a big drop from Iraq's prewar peak of more than 3 million barrels...
...Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggests there may be some division in the Administration over just how far to press the offensive against Iran. (As well there ought to be, since U.S. credibility may not yet have recovered from the debacle of the prewar "evidence" on which it acted against Iraq...
...rise to power of Abe - widely described as a nationalist before his election last September - had liberal critics fearing a return of the dark days of prewar military rule. That's hardly been the case: Abe has so far proved admirably pragmatic in international affairs, and even the threat of a nuclear North Korea has done little to stir Japan from its accustomed postwar pacifism. To the Japanese soldiers in Letters, war is hell, the same as it is everywhere else. Still, Japan is clearly taking steps to become a normal country with a normal military, and the unfinished legacy...