WAR ON IRAK

AP: Powell Is Not Bringing 'a Smoking Gun' Against Iraq to the U.N. Next Week,U.S. Official Says

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell is not bringing
"a
smoking gun" against Iraq to the United Nations next week but will have
circumstantial evidence to make a convincing case that Iraq is hiding
weapons of mass destruction, a U.S. official said Thursday.

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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a
continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave
national
emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some
monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not
blindly rally behind it ..." -- US General Douglas MacArthur, 1957