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...Strategic Miscalculations Your article "What Saddam was Really Thinking" described disclosures made in Charles Duelfer's cia report on Iraq's alleged weapons arsenal [Oct. 18]. The greatest mystery is not why Saddam Hussein let the world assume he had weapons of mass destruction (wmd) but why, with the best intelligence our hard-earned tax money could buy, the U.S. was totally fooled - and as a result has lost more than 1,100 precious American lives. I shudder to think what other surprises await us. J. Connor Boggs Kaneohe, Hawaii, U.S. The U.S. and Britain may have gone into Iraq...
...ambitions of Iran and North Korea. He will confront a seething Muslim world unsettled by the war in Iraq and the plight of the Palestinians. And he may well see bin Laden--inspired extremists try to overthrow the government in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, procure weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or stage another attack on U.S. soil--or all of the above...
...Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton, vice chairman of the independent 9/11 commission. "I talk to a lot of people from many countries, and the common refrain I hear is how low our standing is. That's going to be a major challenge to the next President." The failure to find WMD in Iraq dealt a devastating blow to the credibility of U.S. intelligence, compromising the U.S.'s ability to rally allies to confront Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs. Kerry's natural attachment to Europe--he spent part of his youth there and speaks fluent French, passable Italian...
...choice on Nov. 2 will be defined less by the policies the two candidates have set out than by whether they have proved their capacity to lead. Bush leads through a certainty in the rightness of his cause that is unshaken by the absence of WMD or by more than 1,000 combat deaths in Iraq. "He has a single-minded determination to protect the U.S. from being destroyed by terrorists," says Danforth. "And he believes that spreading freedom is an essential part of protecting America...
...terror, voters prefer Bush over Kerry by 19 points--56% to 37%--up from just 11 points a week ago. The President has widened his lead on all the so-called hard issues of national security: whether it's providing leadership in difficult times, preventing the spread of WMD or being Commander in Chief, voters choose Bush by double-digit margins...