We should be pushing for a highly intrusive inspection regime, with a deadline -- not because we believe Saddam will comply, but because if he doesn't the grounds for attack will be founded on international grievance.
Even the French edition of Saul Bellow's latest novel, "Ravelstein," became grounds for attack when The New York Observer reported in June that the publisher, Gallimard, had selected an image for the book's cover -- a photograph of a large-nosed old man with hornlike tufts of hair -- that verged on anti-Semitic caricature.
The Pataki and Golisano camps have sought to turn campaign finance into grounds for attacks on each other.
Syrian Army defectors have also called for such zones, though they envision them as staging grounds for attacks on the Syrian military.
"If, for example, Iraq becomes a failed state, it will go to the top of the list of places that are breeding grounds for attacks against Americans at home," the report noted.
Or listen to the way that Mr Bush weaves the language of Christian compassion into most of his speeches.I feel your pain, now vote for meThere are plenty of grounds for attacking this.
Mr. Khan insists that he has no links to Al Qaeda or other militant groups, and is merely conveying the religious grounds for attacks against American troops, that is, defending Islam from the West.
No, but the report does warn that if "Iraq becomes a failed state, it will go to the top of the list of places that are breeding grounds for attacks against Americans at home".
It was the third visit to Syria by Mr. Brahimi since he took his post in August, and it occurred as fighting grew worse in the eastern and southern suburbs of Damascus, where rebel commanders say they are trying to establish staging grounds for attacks on the capital.
The commission's report did not offer a judgment on whether the invasion of Iraq had made terrorist attacks against the United States more or less likely, although it warned that if "Iraq becomes a failed state, it will go to the top of the list of places that are breeding grounds for attacks against Americans at home".
The commissioners warn that the price for the Bush bullies' attention deficit disorder could be high: "If, for example, Iraq becomes a failed state, it will go to the top of the list of places that are breeding grounds for attacks against Americans at home.
