There are two main reasons why I believe President Bush was well within his realm of responsibility when he made this decision without consulting the general public; lack of public interest in current political events and concerns about the President's lack of knowledge in military matters First of all, lack of public interest in world events affects my ability to trust the public in decision-making, especially when the ramifications of such decisions could adversely affect our country. ... Most likely, voter turn-out would be low, resulting in an unreliable and inaccurate assessment up...

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The UN and US policy toward Iraq was outlined in a number of UN resolutions and the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. ... But how could they hide from the inspectors? ... Prior to the war the scope of Iraq's chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons programs, as well as its ballistic missile program, remained shrouded in secrecy. ... Although the Iraqi effort fortunately failed, it showed how close the Iraqis were to acquiring a nuclear weapon more than ten years ago. ... The assessments of experienced UN weapons inspectors such as Kay and Butler leave little doubt that inspections and san...

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The UN and US policy toward Iraq was outlined in a number of UN resolutions and the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. ... But how could they hide from the inspectors? ... Prior to the war the scope of Iraq's chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons programs, as well as its ballistic missile program, remained shrouded in secrecy. ... Although the Iraqi effort fortunately failed, it showed how close the Iraqis were to acquiring a nuclear weapon more than ten years ago. ... The assessments of experienced UN weapons inspectors such as Kay and Butler leave little doubt that inspections and san...

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Coulter's highly visible career illustrated how fatuous and dishonest that complaint was long before Slander came out. ... Even left-leaning Phil Donahue, who hosted her on his MSNBC show (since canceled), felt obliged to wish her well in the most obsequious terms. ... But there have been two well-documented schemes to deprive Coulter of an audience. ... Cohen dismissed the constant refrain about liberal media bias as jejune exaggeration, and he mocked the author's injured pose: "Coulter is a strange hybrid "part partisan polemicist, part entertainer, all carefully calculated ac...

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