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Stories from 2002-09-22

Short Warns Blair: Don't Kill Iraqi Innocents

Jo Dillon, Kim Sengupta, Andrew Buncombe | Independent | September 22, 2002

"We should be ready to impose the will of the United Nations on them if they don't co-operate, but not by hurting the people of Iraq. / "Each one of them is as precious as the 3,000 people in the twin towers. We can't sacrifice them to putting it right," she [Clare Short, the International Development Secretary] said. [more]

Analysis: The Sunshine Warrior

Bill Keller | New York Times | September 22, 2002

"Revisiting Ritter's argument a few days later in his Pentagon office, Wolfowitz seems genuinely puzzled by the notion that we need evidence of imminent danger to justify getting rid of Saddam. He has encountered this argument earlier — from the State Department and the C.I.A., in fact, before President Bush stifled that particular line of internal debate by declaring Saddam an intolerable threat, end of story." [more]

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