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...with George W. Bush. A Rhodes scholar who fought in Vietnam and served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe from 1997 to 2000, Clark said the U.S. should finish routing al-Qaeda before taking on Iraq and criticized Bush for being too dismissive of nonwar options there. Commander of NATO's war in Kosovo in 1999, Clark, who juggled the interests of 19 member nations, also took issue with what he sees as Bush's go-it-alone style...
...improve security at streetside Christmas markets, fearing an attack similar to one foiled in Strasbourg last year; rather than spook people with armed police in riot gear, officials in Cologne decided to train plainclothesmen to guard the city's famous holiday market. Officials were especially jittery at the NATO summit in Prague, after two attempts to derail commuter trains ahead of the meeting. The unknown saboteurs were amateurish - they parked a car on the tracks in one instance and planted a homemade bomb in the other - but just to be safe, the government slapped a 30-km/h speed limit...
...That's all for later, though. For the victorious White House, none of the what-ifs and don't-forgets mattered in the hours of triumph immediately following the Senate's vote. Calling in from NATO meetings in Prague, President Bush expressed his pleasure, saying, "Setting up this new department will take time, but I know we will meet the challenge together." If he is chosen to take the helm of the new department, Tom Ridge will remember those words - he will face challenges too daunting to meet...
President Bush spent the week in Europe trying to rouse a posse to go after Saddam Hussein, but the response of his NATO allies underscored the centrality of the new round of UN arms inspections underway in Baghdad. The Europeans simply agreed to restate the existing consensus - that Iraq must comply with UN disarmament requirements, or else. That, after all, is the position codified in UN Security Council resolution 1441, which was adopted unanimously two weeks ago. The U.S. has begun sounding out European allies on troop commitments in the event that military action becomes necessary - the responses will vary...
...Next, Bush flies to St. Petersburg to reassure the Russians that an enlarged NATO is no threat to their country. Bush also hopes to use his personal relationship to bring Putin along a little more in support of pressuring Iraq. Though Russia has strong economic ties to Baghdad, Bush hopes the promise of greater economic links with the United States will help convince Putin to modify his highly qualified endorsement of the American position. That's not the only benefit. By casting its lot firmly with a united anti-Saddam coalition, Bush will argue, Russia takes a big step forward...