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...anti-Iraq campaign, initiating an unpopular military conflict in Iraq may alienate crucial allies necessary to the capture of terrorists. Recent successes in the war on terror have come as a result of the work of law-enforcement agencies in many countries. As anti-American sentiment gains traction in these countries, a good-faith cooperation will be harder to produce. War in Iraq is not, as the Bush administration argues, part of an effort to fight terrorism; rather its effects will undermine this very effort by placing unnecessary stress on already weak alliances. Further, the increased anti-Americanism spawned...
...there is a Bush argument for focusing on Saddam that has gained traction--and that's because it is tied to people's sense of security. Americans say the most compelling reason to disarm Saddam is that he has wantonly killed his own citizens. In the TIME/CNN poll, 83% of respondents ranked that reason as a convincing one for going to war. No. 2, at 72%, was that taking on Saddam would help eliminate weapons of mass destruction. Saddam's cruelty is a rationale Bush unleashed most powerfully in his State of the Union address, cataloging in some detail...
...Condoleezza Rice suggested last week that one reason to invade sooner rather than later was that "uncertainty is unfair" to American allies in the region and to U.S. and British troops massing on the Iraqi border. While war opponents and even some proponents considered the argument offensive, it found traction here. The young troops who would be first into Iraq from the south are training to achieve peak physical and mental condition in the first few weeks of March. "We're building them up to the point where they are emotionally ready to kill," says Marine Lieut. Colonel Bryan...
...resent being psychoanalyzed this way. I resent being classed with gun nuts and sexual predators every time I switch into four-wheel drive. I'm after traction, not dominance, O.K.? It snows a lot where I live, and my desire to reach my office safely isn't proof of some dark syndrome...
After graduation she continued her convalescence, interrupted when she was hit by a car in Harvard Square in a severe accident. She spent many months in traction but made a full recovery to fulfill her dream of practicing medicine...