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...Rumsfeld would have a tough time convincing even the most loyal of U.S. allies to go to war with Iran - and not only because almost two months after Saddam's overthrow, no evidence has yet emerged to conclusively validate the WMD and al-Qaeda charges against Iraq. Even the Bush administration's most loyal ally, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, may be inclined to take a more nuanced view than Rumsfeld. Britain does, after all, maintain diplomatic ties with Tehran and has engaged actively with Iran in the hope of promoting the country's reform movement...
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...that Saddam was allegedly hiding. "Iraq continues to conceal quantities, vast quantities, of highly lethal material and [the] weapons to deliver it," Colin Powell intoned during his presentation at the United Nations in February. After two months of looking, U.S. forces have yet to turn up any quantity of WMD, vast or otherwise, which explains why Fleischer and his counterparts at the State and Defense departments rarely mention Saddam's illegal weapons unless asked by reporters. In another recalibration last week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted that no one in the administration had ever said that there were nuclear weapons...
...article "Unfinished Business" [THE OCCUPATION, April 28], you noted that there are still unresolved issues in Iraq, including incontrovertible evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). For months we were told that the reason the U.S. was going into Iraq was to prevent an out-of-control dictator from using WMD that he was concealing. The situation was repeatedly compared to that of Germany before World War II, and the hawks asserted that, boy, we were not going to play the role of an appeasing Neville Chamberlain. So where are the WMD? Now we are faced with rebuilding a shattered...
...player in forcing a satisfactory resolution of the crisis. Simultaneously, the Bush Administration has voiced expectations that the example of America’s military triumph in Iraq will send a clear and unambiguous coercive lesson to other hostile proliferators, who must understand that they should refrain from seeking WMD or risk the fate of Saddam’s Iraq...