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Lantos, D-San Mateo, was said to have made the comments to a member of Israel’s Labor Party when she visited Washington last week to push for a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict, the Tel Aviv daily Ha’aretz reported … Continue reading →

U.N. officials, who are led by chief arms inspector Hans Blix, said they had pressed President Saddam Hussein’s envoys to provide guarantees of fuller access than Iraq allowed in the years leading up to the breakoff of inspections in 1998, … Continue reading →

The administration’s comments, led by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, apparently came in response to a Russian government statement earlier yesterday that enforcement of the no-fly zones is hampering negotiations for the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq, an assertion … Continue reading →

The meeting, called by Bush late yesterday, would tee up debate expected to begin in the Senate as soon as tomorrow afternoon on whether to authorize the use of military force to disarm and dislodge Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The … Continue reading →

The UN wants to agree a timetable with Baghdad under which the inspectors can return and resume their work. Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix is confident the two sides will reach an agreement. In Vienna, Mr Blix said he expected … Continue reading →

”They [Iraqi officials] said they would allow us to go look anywhere we wanted,” Representative James McDermott, Democrat of Washington, said on ABC’s ”This Week.” ”And until they don’t do that, there is no need to do this coercive stuff … Continue reading →

Instead, our president seems single-mindedly obsessed with attacking Iraq. For months the Bush war team has been talking up taking out Saddam and sneaking so many war toys into places like Qatar and Kuwait that it’s a wonder our desert … Continue reading →

“Many thinking people are questioning this war,” said Rita Clark, 70, a grandmother who said she was originally from Nicaragua. Clark, who has arthritis, said she wasn’t sure if she could complete the long walk to Cheney’s house. “I don’t … Continue reading →

With us now is a guy who’s been following the story since the very beginning, Colonel David Hackworth, the author of the book Steal My Soldier’s Hearts. All right. Now, you were down as a Newsweek correspondent in the war, … Continue reading →