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More important, the U.S. may now move militarily -- without giving the sanctions time to work on Saddam -- because the President describes the ! Amnesty report as "one of the things that's driving me. I've heard some guy telling me . . . we've got time. Time. Read it. It's what's happening now. We don't have a lot of time...
...think they live in a $300,000 house suddenly "lose" $80,000 when they try to sell. In Chicago out-of-work architects are invited to lunch at a soup kitchen for a bowl of chili and some free advice from colleagues who have survived previous recessions. Washington hairdressers report that business is down: in hard times, people let it grow. And as long as the nation is stuttering toward war, there is no predicting when the job market will open up again, or prices stabilize, or tension ease...
...light of the Oval Office, tilted back in his chair, brow knitted, rimless glasses in his restless hands, then on his nose, then off again. He suddenly swivels, points a long forefinger at a stack of papers in the center of his neat desk. It is Amnesty International's report on Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait. He's just been asked about compromising with Saddam Hussein...
...absolutely convinced you can't," he says. "If there's a question about the moral purpose here, I really urge people to read this report. It's going to have a devastating effect. And there are comparisons between this and what happened when ((Hitler's)) Death's Head Regiment went into Poland. I'm about 200 pages into a 950-page book. It's a history of World War II. And the reason I made reference to the Death's Head Regiment is that it was very clearly spelled out what happened. They came in after the original troops...
...lowers his voice so much it is hard to hear him. He looks again at the Amnesty International report. "No question," he says. "You do not placate an aggressor. You do not reward aggression. There's a lot of historical precedent to look at on this...