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...This time around, we were assured once again that all possible precautions were being taken by American forces and the Israeli Air Force. But given the last Gulf War’s skin-of-our-teeth results here, many Israelis clearly had good reason to feel insecure about Saddam??s missiles. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, the advent of war raised the possibility that there would be an increased number of terror attacks. Without having experienced the effects of biological and chemical weaponry, most Israelis fear increased terror attacks more than any missile from Iraq...
...rallyers lined up along Beacon Street in the dismal rain, about five Northeastern students passed out posters that read “Down With Saddam?? in red letters. During a lull in the drizzle, some rallyers began to sing “God Bless America...
Brooks said claims that the U.S. is an unwelcome intruder in Iraq shouldn’t deter the army’s efforts to end Saddam??s regime...
...what Bush did to what Bush could have done. If back in August he had begun garnering a few big allies clandestinely—a job easily achieved by giving the French oil rights in post-war Iraq and by paying off Russia the amount of money owed by Saddam??he could have prevented the U.N. coup. With no major world leaders challenging Bush, we would hear much less chatter from the protest types, mirroring the silence surrounding America’s interventions in Bosnia and Afghanistan...
...because Bush chose to win Security Council approval instead of working diplomatic backchannels, the U.N. has been rendered useless once again. It failed to find much of Saddam??s chemical arsenal, and, as the war draws on, it continues to fail to enforce its own resolutions. Bush should not have given the Security Council the chance to render itself so useless. When political advisers tell future presidents about the lessons of the run-up to the second war with Iraq, it will be that Bush was too much of a loud dove, and not enough of a secretive...