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...other senior on the team, Colin Campbell, was unable to play because...
...potential clincher: Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has told the White House that the only way to make sure of Saddam's defeat would be once more to commit American ground troops. British military sources estimate that as many as 100,000 to 200,000 would be required -- and that if they had to be sent into combat, they would take far heavier casualties than last year. Moreover, this time the casualties would be all American: London and such U.S. allies as France and Egypt want no part of the reported scheme. More flag-draped coffins...
...LOGIC that reinforces the willingness to kill civilians while making war seem more clean and precise has seized hold of American military planning and made a hero of men like the "level-headed and astute chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," Gen. Colin L. Powell...
This outpouring of American pride--pride in our technological superiority (Rah Patriot Missile), in our brilliant military (Rah 100-hour war), in our humanity (Rah No Civilian Targets), in our racial equity (Rah Colin Powell, Rah Blacks and whites in the trenches), in our democratic ideals (Rah Restoring the Elected and Legitimate Government of the Freedom-Loving People of Kuwait)--has been a successful diversion of our attention from pressing economic issues...
...transcended our race problems. Twenty percent of American troops in the Gulf were Black. Colin Powell, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is Black. As the now-popular slogan has it, in the trenches, there is no Black and white...