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...Monitor: “He’s vetted; that’s very important. Voters know what there is to know, both positive and negative, and they obviously like him.” I’m somehow imagining Edwards with lights shone in his mouth, Saddam Hussein-style. Wary of electing house pets which are too docile for the voters’ tastes, Helen Kennedy of The New York Daily News cautioned that “Edwards has not been much of an attack dog, a key quality in a veep...
...real challenge today is to make sure that we can make inspections effective,” said Kay. “We have to find a way to make inspectors smarter and more capable. Do I believe the U.N. inspection mechanism could have gotten rid of Saddam...
...Iraq's wealth in its banks. "They've just stopped responding to us on the issue," complains a U.S. official. Because the money kept by foreign governments has been difficult to recover, Washington is also going after former Iraqi officials who have purloined funds they once controlled. One was Saddam's ambassador to Moscow during the U.S. invasion. A senior U.S. government official tells TIME that the ambassador planned to make off with $4 million kept in embassy bank accounts. He allegedly withdrew the cash, used it to buy certificates of deposit in his wife's name and apparently hoped...
When U.S. troops ousted Saddam Hussein a year ago, American officials and companies held certain assumptions about Iraq's prospects. With the dictator gone, businesses would reopen and drive an economic boom with their newfound freedoms. Traders would pile across the six borders, selling goods to consumers denied foreign items during 13 years of sanctions. Entrepreneurs would scramble for reconstruction contracts worth billions. Investment would pour in from millions of Iraqi exiles--including hundreds of thousands...
...ever. Baghdad's stores--depleted by the embargo--now have stacks of televisions, microwave ovens and Dell computers, and satellite dishes are propped on the balconies of most Baghdad apartment blocks. The roads are jammed with BMWs and Mercedes freshly imported from Dubai. In February another item banned by Saddam--the cell phone--finally hit the streets...