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...anticipation about Blair's evidence is stoked by Westminster-based journalists and commentators, many of whom have either conveniently forgotten their own support for the war or hope to expunge their complicity with proof that Blair hoodwinked us all. At worst, he is portrayed as a man who cared nothing for questions of morality or legality, so determined was he to fall in behind the U.S. But that is merely to replace one fiction - that Saddam was armed to the teeth with WMD - with another. (See pictures of Saddam Hussein...
...Blair knew he could not persuade British public opinion to support military action solely on the basis that Sad-dam should go and that Bush had made up his mind. He had to use, in his own phrase, "different arguments." The arguments he chose were based on Saddam's "active, detailed and growing" WMD program and his nuclear ambitions. In doing so, Blair stretched the truth about WMD to breaking point. (Read a TIME cover story on Saddam Hussein being captured...
...need to vote with our forks as consumers. We also need to make our agricultural policies support the kind of food system we want--support farmers who are growing organic food or local food, not just big corn and soy farmers...
...agree that we need to eliminate subsidies. Government has been supporting farmers in one way or another since the Depression. There's been intervention in agriculture going back to the Old Testament. I think we should support our farmers, but we should get something more for it than cheap calories...
...time as a nurse. Her older brother helps out twice a week, and their three siblings, who live in other states, spend their vacations on parent duty. When their mom complains unrelentingly, Walker calls her siblings to vent. "It makes a difference to me to feel I have their support," she says. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...