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...that the first casualty of war is truth, but truth often dies long before the war begins. This is especially the case when war is painstakingly engineered by our leaders, rather than thrust upon them by the Forces of Evil. Earlier this week, Iraq took a bold step to avoid military conflict by allowing weapons inspectors immediate and unconditional access; but with enough duplicity President Bush should be back on the road to war in no time...
...amass troops around Iraq’s borders while assuring the public he is a patient man and hasn’t made up his mind. Iraq’s offers to readmit weapons inspectors can be dismissed as “manipulative” while U.S. attempts to avoid the renewal of inspections are reported as “diplomacy...
...scientists (all of whom on the committee voted to allow cloning research) win back the trust politicians and avoid being remembered (or mis-remembered) in history as the mistreated Leeuwenhoeks of the cloning debate? They need to make the opponents of cloning face up to slippery slope on which they rest their arguments. By selectively maintaining that the potential for human life deserves protection, opponents of cloning take a principled position that is ultimately impractical. Thus, scientists should argue that the threshold for human life is much higher than a few cells in a dish. The possible medical benefits...
...disarmament rather than regime change, and while Washington dismisses Saddam's latest promises to comply as simply a tactical ploy, almost everyone else on the Security Council wants to test his intentions by actually sending the inspectors back into Iraq. That's an eventuality Administration hawks had hoped to avoid out of the conviction that inspections give Saddam wiggle room, are an insufficient guarantee of disarmament and will only slow the momentum toward...
...They don't want to give in too early on the U.S. push for action. It would be a lot easier for the Russians if the inspectors were sent back, and were blocked by Saddam. That would allow Putin to walk away, saying he'd done his best to avoid war but that Saddam brought his fate upon himself. No matter how tough his foreign minister Igor Ivanov sounds, Putin still values his relationship with President Bush above all else...