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Earlier today, Iraq followed days of threats, warnings and pavement scrawlings by flagrantly refusing to shoot down a U-2 surveillance plane flying over its territory. "It's flown and everything went well," said one excited Pentagon official Tuesday...
...been the first U-2 flight since Saddam Hussein ordered U.S. weapons inspectors out of Iraq last Friday, and the fact that it passed without incident was a sign of emerging d?tente. What Madeleine Albright described as a "little carrot" for Saddam ? allowing Iraq to sell more oil in exchange for food in return for allowing the inspectors back ? was being discussed by American, British, French and Russian officials...
...After the smooth-talking Tariq Aziz threatened to shoot down U-2s Monday, Clinton opted for restraint by waiting to see if the U.N. Security Council would condemn Saddam. They did. Iraq responded with an angry expulsion of American inspectors that only brought the U.S. and U.N. closer together...
...Saddam, of course, saw it as a symbolic victory ? and he?ll feel even better if Clinton decided to bomb him now. Short of standing in the streets of Baghdad screaming ?come and get me? at passing U-2s, he couldn?t be signaling it any clearer. The reason? It will fracture the international alliance and build sympathy for Iraq in the Arab world. Nothing would give Saddam greater pleasure than to play the butterfly broken on America?s wheel...
Danes filmed I Love You, I Love You Not before last year's Romeo and Juliet. One wonders whether she would choose to do this film now. It is clear that she wants to make movies that are original and artistically diverse. After playing a trashy westerner in U-Turn she's due to star as an abused wife in the upcoming The Rainmaker and will appear as Cosette in Les Miserables this spring. Though it is understandable that someone as young as Danes might mistake originality for quality, her performance, sadly, can't possibly rise above a script...