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Campaign 2002: The Times Recommends
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It is hard to view the recent images of American POWs being paraded around in front of television cameras by the Iraqi military. But, as disturbing as that is, it is also hard to listen to the president and defense secretary denounce the pictures as a violation of the Geneva Convention. George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld need to look in the mirror before they start waving the 1949 Convention around crying foul. It is they who relegated this exceptional body of international law to the status of a paper airplane. Bill Maxwell: Black boarding schools provide haven of discipline, learning Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist William Raspberry and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young have at least one thing in common: Each graduated from a historically black boarding school. Philip Gailey: Freedom means nothing without dissent The war in Iraq is bringing out the best in American fighting men and women in harm's way. It's also bringing out the worst in some Americans on opposing sides of the war. The public dialogue is getting as ugly and rancorous as the U.N. Security Council debate over whether to go to war. First, we turned on the French, pouring their wine down the toilet and boycotting anything French (thank goodness French poodles have been spared). Now we're turning on each other, smashing Dixie Chicks CDs and lashing out at antiwar Hollywood actors. Martin Dyckman: Lessons in voting from the French TALLAHASSEE -- As Florida politicians argue about what to do with the runoff primary, it would be instructive for them to keep French President Jacques Chirac in mind. For Iorio, getting elected was the easy part She has five months to write a $700-million budget. She needs a fire chief, police chief, city clerk, city attorney and new department heads for housing, water and business. Her city requires millions for health care and port security that it may not get. And the City Council would like some of her power. Can America take battlefield losses? Yes, if victory in sight Everything about the war with Iraq was billed as big, from the shocking and awesome dimensions of the proposed initial bombardment to the Hitlerian-sized menace posed by Saddam Hussein. Blogs over Baghdad, or: Where is Salam Pax? There are, according to people who keep track of such things, 111,000 personal journals or "Web logs" on the Internet. One of them operates out of Baghdad. Hopes for quick march into Baghdad fade Nothing changes a war plan like fighting, and rosy U.S. scenarios fell by the wayside as U.S. and British forces moved into the second week of the invasion of Iraq. Editorial: Unsecured soil As the chances of a terrorist attack on American soil increase, Congress and the Bush administration should feel some urgency to patch a gaping hole in homeland defense. The nation's 15,000 chemical plants pose a substantial risk, and 110 of the largest facilities would threaten a million people or more if a terrorist attack spread the chemicals. Yet the chemical industry has spent millions of dollars on campaign contributions and public relations to fight off federal oversight of its security. Editorial: 'Do the people care?' In the Legislature, the House and Senate both offer problematic budgets, but at least the Senate's effort seems designed to stir taxpayers to some action. Letters: TSA screening will respect privacy Security and privacy are the guiding principles behind the Transportation Security Administration's latest effort to find foreign terrorists before they board U.S. aircraft.
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