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...soldiers carried out their primary mission: "to eliminate the threat." Iraqis, however, are following a different set of compulsions. A few hours after the killing, Major Dean Shultis reported that his battalion had collected 69 prisoners of war over the previous 24 hours. He said he had tried to warn the Iraqis that approaching American checkpoints now was dangerous. They're not listening. "We're hungry," replied a prisoner. "And we're not going to stop coming...
...President Jacques Chirac said “we are not anti-American…but if there is a friend or somebody I dearly love, and if you see that they are going down the wrong path…then friendship demands that we tell that friend, that we warn him.” However, many U.S. officials still viewed the French position as being somehow pro-Saddam, and therefore antagonistic to the United States...
...colonize the country and jumpstart the transition to Iraqi democracy by bypassing the question of whether the U.S. or the UN should take charge in Baghdad. But the State Department and the CIA are deeply suspicious of Chalabi. They question his claim to have popular support inside Iraq, and warn against preempting the Iraqis' choosing their own new leaders and installing a group viewed with considerable skepticism in the Arab world. Britain is also urging a speedy transition to an interim government. But its proposal is radically different from Rumsfeld's - it envisages such a government emerging...
...Pentagon hawks note that Chalabi has said he would recognize Israel, an indication, they say, that this is an Iraqi who shares President Bush's vision of the Middle East. Detractors warn that a rush to embrace Israel would be the kiss of death for any new Iraqi administration. After all, Saddam's own propaganda has been based on telling Iraqis they're being invaded in the interests of Israel's security. Even without Saddam, there's no reason to expect that Iraqis' view of Israel would be substantially different from that which prevails in the rest of the Arab...
...officials warn that Iraqi oil revenues will cover only a small fraction of the cost of rebuilding Iraq, and Washington is hoping to persuade European countries to contribute generously. But EU officials say that while Europe would be willing to channel such aid through a UN authority, it would not fund an administration installed...