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...more than 100 members of the House mushed through a snowstorm to a White House breakfast at which the President pleaded for their backing. Said Bush: "The last, best chance for Saddam Hussein to get the message is in your hands." To counter pro-sanctions arguments, CIA Director William Webster sent a letter to the Hill asserting that even if the embargo remained in place for six months to a year, it would not force Iraq from Kuwait...
...love of his fickle girlfriend, a rich, withered old man named Webster spends $1 million on plastic surgery; he trades faces with a young Adonis named Hans. But the girl still finds Webster repulsive, so he spends $2 million more for Hans' handsome torso. Webster is a big hit on Muscle Beach, but when he's in a swimsuit his spindly legs make his lady ill. So he squanders the last $3 million of his fortune on Hans' legs and one or two other appendages. Perhaps finally he can win his beloved's heart? No; she's eloped with Hans...
...Kindergarten Cop -- guarantees that people will buy tickets or snatch up the videocassette. He didn't need a plastic surgeon or a movie-agent Mephistopheles to become Arnold; his eminence is a triumph of the will. Even if he weren't a celebrity, he would be richer than Webster; his shrewd entrepreneurship and real estate investments have made him tens of millions. As for the girl, he got her: Maria Shriver, NBC newscaster and Kennedy niece. When he is not chumming with the clan in Hyannis Port, he is stumping for George Bush or serving as chairman of the President...
Significantly, Webster said that if military force did eventually become necessary, the passage of time would favor the anti-Saddam alliance because Iraq's war machine would have deteriorated so badly. That view contrasted sharply with the one put before the same House committee two days earlier by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. He told the panel that delay would only give the Iraqi military more opportunity to strengthen its defenses in Kuwait and southern Iraq. Webster had other concerns about the effect of delays, however. During closed-door sessions of the House hearings, he reportedly told the committee...
Such sentiments were buttressed by the testimony of a chorus of blue-ribbon experts, including seven former Defense Secretaries and two former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who all counseled temperance. No witness was more compelling than the government's own William Webster, director of the CIA, who, to the amazement of many, departed from the Administration's line when he projected that the embargoes would begin to bog down Saddam's military in three to nine months...