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...modern European politicians comfortable thinking of the world in moral terms. There's a strain of Victorian rectitude in him that explains why he's convinced of Saddam's venality. The soon-to-be-published British dossier on Saddam's behavior, say two sources who have read it, will stress the Iraqi leader's brutality--his use of torture, the fact that he killed perhaps 100,000 Kurds (some of them with chemical weapons) to maintain his rule...
...other permanent members of the Security Council, the French know those arguments just as well as the British but won't stress them. For Paris, the key thing is not to oppose American military action in Iraq for the fun of it--in fact, relations between the French and American governments have been quietly improving--but to ensure that any war has a U.N. seal of approval. A carefully crafted Security Council resolution should do the trick, as it should for the Chinese--similarly opposed to the unilateral display of American armed force--and the Russians. "Russia isn't going...
...emotional stress of the anniversary this year was compounded yesterday for many by the government’s announcement that it had received “specific and credible” information about a possible new attack by terrorists...
...modern European politicians comfortable thinking of the world in moral terms. There's a strain of Victorian rectitude in him that explains why he's convinced of Saddam's venality. The soon-to-be-published British dossier on Saddam's behavior, say two sources who have read it, will stress the Iraqi leader's brutality - his use of torture, the fact that he killed perhaps 100,000 Kurds (some of them with chemical weapons) to maintain his rule...
...neither Birmingham nor Tolman has appeared content to simply stress their own records—each has run television ads criticizing party opponents...