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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (19755)	11/10/2002 12:49:24 PM
From: hdl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27672

Iraq will not be permitted to build or possess chemical, biological or nuclear weapons- but many countries will. even re Iraq, syria and iraq are right that u s has not used effective measures against iraq for over 10 years.

To: lorne who wrote (19755)	11/10/2002 3:20:08 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 27672

GOP realizes political chips on the table URL:http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/nation/4486861.htm DESPITE CHANCE FOR ACTION, ONE-PARTY RULE IS RISKY By Robin Toner and Carl Hulse New York Times WASHINGTON - For all the jubilation in Republican circles last week, there was a sobering thought as the party prepared to take control of Congress: Now they are responsible. For it all. To win their Senate majority and to expand their margin in the House, Republicans campaigned hard against what they called an obstructionist, do-nothing Democratic Senate, promising to produce on issues like tax cuts, domestic security and prescription-drug relief for the elderly. Now that voters have given the GOP control of Congress as well as the White House, Republicans have to figure out how to deliver, acutely aware that one-party government is fraught with risks as well as opportunities. `Government must deliver' Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, who ran the National Republican Senatorial Committee and helped create this new majority, argued in an interview, ``These elections were for me, and the country, about trust -- and with that trust comes huge responsibility that the government must deliver on.'' Frist added, ``That window is not going to be open for a real long period of time.'' Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., put it more succinctly: ``The delivery of the goods is now paramount.'' Yet, as Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the incoming majority leader, carefully noted last week, ``The majority leader is not a ruler.'' A 51- or 52-vote majority in the Senate, which the Republicans expect, is well short of the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. White House officials say they recognize such realities, but already the first signs of strain have appeared between the White House and Senate Republicans over what is in reach and what is not. President Bush insisted that he wanted the bill creating the Homeland Security Department completed in the lame-duck legislative session that begins this month. Lott said he would do his best, but could offer no guarantees. Administration officials made it clear that they were not pleased, and a few days after praising the president effusively in his post-election remarks, Lott found himself at odds with the White House. Administration officials moved quickly to bring him in line, and after lunch at the White House on Friday, Lott appeared to get on board. Appealing to all sides The return of one-party government presents other challenges, notably managing a coalition that ranges from the conservatism of Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas, expected to be the next House majority leader, to the liberalism of Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island. After the defection of Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont, a longtime moderate who asserted that his party under Bush had moved too far to the right, GOP leaders said they tried hard to be more sensitive to the remaining moderates. Chafee said he believed that was the case. Democrats, still smarting from last week's election results, were watching carefully. ``They have to perform or answer for not performing, and we have to point out where the public's interest is not served,'' said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, who appeared to have nailed down the House minority leader post. The House is particularly prone to overreaching, some analysts say, which runs the risk of alienating voters. Newt Gingrich's claim of a mandate for a revolution in 1994 led directly to the party's losses in 1996, those analysts argue. There is another risk, said Mickey Edwards, a former Republican House member and a lecturer at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. ``If the majority really goes all out to get its agenda shoved through, sometimes it just invigorates the opposition.''

To: lorne who wrote (19755)	11/10/2002 10:34:12 PM
From: Investor Clouseau	Respond to of 27672

US President George W. Bush, in contrast, claimed the passage of the resolution after eight weeks of tortuous negotiation at the UN as vindication of his uncompromising policy on Iraq..........................................“And my administration will see to it that the world’s judgment is enforced.” Yes, and friends of his administration will see that the worlds judgement is enforced. In an interview, Powell again hinted that Saddam’s government might be allowed to survive — further evidence of Washington’s apparent shift from a position earlier this year which seemed to offer the Iraqi president no future but overthrow through “regime change”. Not necessarily my position, but Secretary Powell listens very closely to what Arabs have to say. Even when it appears he is not listening, Arab thoughts are discussed at the highest levels. IC