Word: triggered
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...prescribe a new regime for unfettered inspections that is so in Iraq's face that it might work. And if it doesn't, as the Administration frankly would prefer, it would give the U.S. a legitimate pretext for war. In its view, either inspectors would find something that would trigger action, or they would be blocked by Saddam: either would be cause for green-lighting the bombers...
...stories together into a vibrant, continuously updated Web page. My website is TIME.com Theirs is Google News. But I get paid for what I do, while Google's news editor gets no compensation--no salary, no medical, no free T shirts from failing dotcoms. If West Coast dockworkers can trigger a labor dispute because automation threatens to thin their ranks...
...made him more supportive, he says, of the war on terrorism. "I revere the U.S. as the nation of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King," he says now. "I want Americans to know that our revolution is about their ideals." For its part, the Bush Administration is now warning trigger-happy Venezuelan generals that it won't recognize any unconstitutional overthrow of Chavez. The White House "wouldn't be doing that if it hadn't decided that we have to deal with this guy," says a U.S. official in Latin America. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Roy Chaderton Matos, concurs: "Our channels...
...terrifying. Second, we must remember that we cannot always wait for the smoking gun. Instead, we should remember that you never hear the bullet that kills you. If we reserve action until we are absolutely sure that the fellow pointing the gun at us is about to pull the trigger, it may be too late. That was the lesson of Sept...
...also the prospect of mass anti-American demonstrations that could threaten the stability of some of its key allies in the region, including Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. President Bush has already been burned in effigy many times over this year in the streets of Arab capitals, although the trigger issue until now has been the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Earlier this year, the wave of Arab anger sparked by Israel's reoccupation of West Bank cities even reached as far as normally tranquil Bahrain, which is also home to U.S. Naval operations in the Gulf. That wave of outrage sabotaged...