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 [China Matters] A Christian Science Monitor article concerning Chi...: Those with long memories will recall that the sanction regime against Iraq was weakening because of European indifference and impatience before the Bush administration stepped in with its anti-Saddam campaign and made it clear that it would not permit Saddam’s Iraq to regain the measure of legitimacy and protection under international law that status as an unsanctioned, member-in-good-standing of the nation-state club bestows.

 [PBD - Progressive Blog Digest] TRUE COLORS Bill Frist (DOESN’T rhyme with “Chris...: Because Senator Frist's office feared that a Democratic Senator would object to the Hearings on the Floor of the Senate at 2 p.m., the Republicans -- in order to RAM THE BOLTON NOMINATION THROUGH -- have gone into recess. By stopping all Senate business -- ALL business -- and planning to reconvene at 4:30 p.m., the Republican leadership has preempted an option that the minority would have had to make the administration comply with Senator Dodd's request for the National Security Agency intercepts that Bolton may have used to wage war against rival officials in the State Department.

 [ClassWarNotes] Social Security and Bush's War Budget: When the skeptical ne’er-do-wells pointed out that UN inspectors had destroyed most of what Saddam had and that widely devastating and lethal sanctions that starved hundreds of thousands of Iraqis prevented him from acquiring more, evidence was conjured up, cartoons were drawn, satellite photos were taken, exiles were bribed, and expert testimony was carefully censored.

 [A Green Conservatism] Op-Ed Columnist: Homegrown Osamas. A famous libe...: The government is already behaving like a bunch of lunatics, shoving aside American liberty and the privacy essential to it in order to search under all our beds and "make us safe," and this guy wants them to focus more such efforts on "homegrown Osamas" rather than foreign ones.

 [Toteota.blogspot.com] thoughts on the eve of the apocalypse: March 2003: The memo is directed at senior NSA officials and advises them that the agency is 'mounting a surge' aimed at gleaning information not only on how delegations on the Security Council will vote on any second resolution on Iraq, but also 'policies', 'negotiating positions', 'alliances' and 'dependencies' - the 'whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises'...Update: So far, I have not seen or heard this story reported in any American media. A Google News search turns up nothing.

 [Spectator.se] Stockholm Spectator GroupBlog: And while there has been a sustained level of terrorist violence in Iraq, it doesn’t qualify as civil war, according to anti-war academic Juan Cole (excoriated by Rubin, incidentally, in the piece linked above): “ Iraq is not now having a conventional civil war, in which you’d have militias fielding 2,000 or 3,000 men against one another and vying over territory. If such a civil war broke out, of course the US military could stop it.”

[Ravenna.com] A Yank in Oz: A bold leader would have declared that Saddam must go whether he has WMDs or not, instead of trying to manufacture the proof we didn't have and strong-arm other nations into accepting it. Saddam had plenty of sins that justified armed intervention to remove him, and opening up a real live debate on how well the Peace of Westphalia is holding up after 400 years just might do wonders for America's reputation and security and silence the critics who fear a world where America alone determines the limits of national sovereignty.

 [Motherjones.com] MoJo Blog: Bush also acknowledged for the first time that he made a "miscalculation of what the conditions would be'' in postwar Iraq. But he insisted that the 17-month-long insurgency that has upended the administration's plans for the country was the unintended by-product of a "swift victory'' against Saddam Hussein's military, which fled and then disappeared into the cities, enabling them to mount a rebellion against the American forces far faster than Mr.

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