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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47930)	3/3/2005 2:58:41 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Dictator faces music, a changing new world for ME tyrants-President Bush increased pressure on Syria Wednesday, demanding it withdraw its troops from Lebanon, while Iran and its nuclear weapons program drew fresh U.S. criticism. Overall, the American rhetoric toward Damascus and Tehran was combative, reminiscent in some ways of the tough talk that preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq two years ago. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, declaring "we cannot be relaxed about Iran," declined to rule out a U.S. attack. "The president of the United States never categorically rules out anything," she said in an interview with the British television network ITV. But, Rice said, "diplomacy has time to work," and she hinted that Bush would approve economic overtures by U.S. allies to Iran. "We are supportive of the Europeans," she said. On Syria, though, there appears to be no give in the hard U.S. position that it must withdraw its troops and security forces from Lebanon and permit the neighboring Arab country it has long dominated to run its own political affairs. Speaking at a community college in Maryland, Bush demanded Syria give democracy a chance to flourish in Lebanon. With France solidly aligned with the United States — in contrast to France's dissent from the Iraq war — Bush said, "The free world is in agreement that Damascus' authority over the political affairs of its neighbor must end."