Word: tenuousness
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...defectors in the hands of the opposition Iraqi National Congress and prisoners held by pro-U.S. Kurdish factions--all of whom have a vested interest in feeding anti-Saddam propaganda. CIA officials, while not ruling anything out, say meaningful ties between Saddam and bin Laden are tenuous at best. Members of Congress who have been well briefed have seen no smoking gun. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a Foreign Relations Committee member who has warned against a pre-emptive strike, insists, "Saddam is not in league with al-Qaeda. Of course he cheers and encourages them. But I have...
...enlist a terrorist network in his battle against America. But the hawks are doing damage to their own cause by trumpeting unproved allegations of Saddam's links to bin Laden that could undermine more substantial reasons for taking down a dangerous dictator. The al-Qaeda connection looks too tenuous now to justify war with Iraq. If the President is truly concerned about preserving American credibility, he needs to do a more persuasive job explaining why another war against Iraq is worth the effort...
Politics was the bottom line, after all. Investors set off Brazil's crisis out of fear that the two leftist candidates leading in presidential election polls would reverse the country's laudable efforts to adopt free-market reforms. A Brazilian default could upset the tenuous U.S. recovery and cost U.S. Republicans in November's congressional elections. That vote also coincides with the start of new negotiations for a giant hemispheric free-trade pact. If Brazil's economy continues to melt down, those talks will implode, causing Bush political embarrassment...
...where he worked for 21 years, publishes the report that listed Sierra Leone last - was first elected in 1996, the country was mired in a civil war whose hallmark was rebel soldiers' tendency to hack off the limbs of their victims. Kabbah's initial hold on office was so tenuous that foreign troops had to intervene to reinstate him when he was briefly ousted by disgruntled soldiers in 1997. A cease-fire agreement with the rebels paved the way for the deployment of 16,000 U.N. peacekeepers in the country. With elections in May that were for the most part...
...happy. Senate minority leader Trent Lott went ballistic and said the Republicans would block the measure. FBI Director Robert Mueller's mea culpa last week gave Daschle some needed cover for his proposal. But the danger for Daschle was closer to home: his action just might jeopardize the Democrats' tenuous hold on the Senate, and his position as majority leader. Polls show that while Republicans are vulnerable on domestic issues, Democrats are ill advised to go after Bush's popular war on terrorism. And no one knows that better than Daschle's rival Lott. "Our message is, Defense first," Lott...