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...Colin Powell is a military man, not a marketing analyst, but he keenly recognized the mood of American consumers last week, when he talked about the "oscillations between euphoria and distress." The shock of war's beginning has passed, but Americans are left swinging between the moods of hope and resignation about the war and the economy. In one sense, consumers are hunkering down, digging in and embracing reality. They are postponing big decisions and avoiding the kind of purchases that fuel the economy: autos, houses, appliances. (Suddenly the old car doesn't look so bad.) Yet simultaneously they realize...
Pentagon officials deny that the military is exploiting blacks and insist that the disproportionate numbers are the random result of America's decision in 1973 to replace the draft with an all-volunteer force. They also point to the example of Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, whose rise to the top ranks of the U.S. military stands as a striking illustration of the career opportunities that have long attracted African Americans into the armed forces. Nor is Powell alone at the top: 26 of the Army's 407 generals are black...
...General Colin Powell complimented the Iraqis last week for their skills of deception. "They're quite good at it," he said. In addition to the ersatz launchers, Iraq has employed mock tanks, airplanes, bunkers and artillery. The preferred materials: plywood, aluminum and fiber glass. Among the Iraqis' possible suppliers was a French company, Lancelin-Barracuda, and an Italian competitor, M.V.M. A U.S. Defense Department official says Baghdad is even hiding missiles in "portable mosques sized to the task of concealment." In addition to deploying decoys, the Iraqis are painting craters onto repaired airfields so allied bombers won't retarget them...
...assassinate Saddam? Or threaten to nuke Baghdad? Or carpet bomb the Iraqis to kingdom come? The U.S., in fact, does have potent weapons that have not yet been unsheathed. "We have a toolbox that's full of lots of tools, and I brought them all to the party," General Colin Powell said last week. Field commander H. Norman Schwarzkopf bragged, "We could end the war in two days, but we don't want to destroy Iraq...
...Colin Powell and the Pentagon establishment conspire to make sure the public never finds out just how awful this war really is. Military officials toe the White House line, and reporters parrot their propaganda to the people...