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...Apparently it was worse for a president to lie to the American people about having sex with an intern than it was for a President to lie to the American people by justifying a war on the basis of forged documents about uranium purchases. One lie led to impeachment. But I am afraid the other lie will lead to re-election. Carolyn Maki Midlothian...
...with Iraq solely because of Saddam's possible attempts to purchase uranium. The U.S. argued that Saddam's government possessed a variety of weapons of mass destruction and had a history of aggression. Iraq's war against Iran, the occupation of Kuwait and missile attacks on Israel during the first Gulf War showed that Saddam's Iraq was a danger. Ian Reilly New York City...
...group Shining Path for more than half of the killings carried out between 1980 and 2000, and government troops for much of the rest. Most of the victims were Quechua-speaking peasants. Nuclear Traces IRAN The U.N.'s nuclear weapons watchdog confirmed that inspectors found particles of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear power plant south of Tehran. Iran claimed the weapons-grade samples originated from equipment imported onto the Natanz site, and says it will discuss letting the U.N. conduct snap inspections. Souvenir Hunters THE U.K. Thieves posing as tourists made off with a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece worth...
...past year, the Dear Leader has repudiated all past nuclear bargains and treaties, including the Agreed Framework and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, all the while hurling provocative invective at the U.S. Kim's government acknowledges it has been carrying out a clandestine program to make bombs from enriched uranium. North Korea is believed to have enough fissile material for at least two N-bombs already, and since abrogating the Agreed Framework, Pyongyang officials claim to have extracted enough plutonium from spent nuclear-reactor fuel rods to make five or six more bombs...
...Leaders and Misleaders Joe Klein was right: by falsely claiming that Iraq sought to buy uranium in Africa, President Bush misled his nation and its allies [July 28]. However, as a Japanese, what I deplore most is that many of my country's leaders, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, seem to be willing to send members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to Iraq, disregarding not only Japan's constitution but also questions about the legitimacy of the war. They insist that the reason for deploying the SDF is to help reconstruct the Iraqis' lives and maintain peace...