| | MER Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In the lead-up to this war, one which the hard-line Zionists and Christian fundamentalists clearly used 9/11 as the excuse to bring about, rather than the cause, the new American President changed the foreign-frequent-visitor policy of the White House on its head. |
 | | But if things go badly, history may well judge the war to be a criminal enterprise - unjustified, unprovoked, illegitimate, catastrophic for the Iraqi victims of the conflict and destructive of the rules of international relations as they have evolved over the past half century. |
 | | In this war, the great unanswered question is whether American and British troops will meet any serious resistance, not just from the elite units of the Iraqi army but also from the civilian population. |
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