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...this case, the security of the people." And yet while they are sensitive about acknowledging it, Bush's advisers are watching public sentiment carefully. A month ago, a senior official--after insisting on anonymity--ticked off polling data from the Washington Post, Fox News, the Pew Research Center, CBS, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek and TIME. "I could go on and on and on," he said impatiently. "The point remains the same. Large majorities of the American people continue to support the use of force to disarm Saddam Hussein...
...least a small majority does. The numbers in the latest TIME-CNN survey indicate that Bush has successfully made the case that Saddam Hussein must go: 54% of those surveyed in mid-February said the U.S. should use military action to remove him. That's slightly higher than support on the eve of the Gulf War, and if that conflict is any precedent, approval would surge the moment the first cruise missiles were launched...
Rick Kaplan returns to ABC after a six-year hiatus during which he was President of CNN and a Lombard Visiting Lecturer and Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, a position he held until last June...
...resources to upgrade defenses against them. Hospitals say they can't train enough employees to effectively spot and treat victims of biological attacks; fire departments can't afford to buy the haz-mat suits needed to guard against deadly germs; sheriffs say they still learn about terrorist threats from CNN. The bottom line is that in many respects, the homeland is no more secure than it was on Sept. 10, 2001. "The biggest thing we've done," says William Harper, head of homeland security for the state of Arkansas, "is to avoid feeling comfortable...
...though Colin Powell has been at the forefront of current developments in the U.N., the last year has left no doubt in the eyes of many nations that his purpose is to appease and remunerate, not negotiate. Rumsfeld’s peculiar prominence was crystallized when CNN interviewer Jim Clancy told the Secretary of Defense that people around the world “probably know you better than they do George W. Bush.” The President now seems less executive and more regent than he has ever been before—an acute problem for his reputation abroad...