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...when it launched its army at Iran. Prior to that war the average Iraqi earned about $5,000 per year; the country was just at the point where the World Bank says an economy creates a large enough middle class that it enters on a virtuous cycle of rapid economic growth. If those trends had continued, Iraq today would be ranked as a member of the newly industrialized nations. The average Iraqi would now enjoy an annual income of $15,000 and the country's GDP would be close to $400 billion - almost 20 times its current level. Instead...
...promising turn of events, Kim reappeared last week in public after two months of silence. America’s rapid toppling of the Iraqi regime may have given the Korean leadership a change of heart, and the policy turnaround—declaring openness to multilateral talks with concerned neighbors such as South Korea, Japan, Russia and China—may reflect a new pragmatism...
...plans to send quick-reaction forces from both land and air into the city to deliver rapid-fire punches at new targets as they are identified by fresh intelligence. Already A-10s and other warplanes, aided by AH-1 and AH-64 helicopter gunships, are hitting sites inside the city limits. Topping the list of appealing targets are locations where Saddam or members of his inner circle might be. Next are outposts of the Special Republican Guard...
According to Ladan Akbamia, a third year graduate student in the department, his rapid ascent is not surprising...
With live footage of fire fights streaming into the world's living rooms, the White House distanced itself from the predictions of a rapid, relatively painless victory that Administration hawks had peddled to build support for the war. The hopeful mood on display at the White House on the war's opening night has vanished. A presidential adviser said aides were trying to concentrate on their work while glued to their televisions. "They're very, very somber," the adviser said. Before Bush's speech at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., last Wednesday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told...