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'Sell Out'
Gephardt Posture Irks Some in Party
by Susan Milligan
Thursday, October 3, 2002 in the Boston Globe

WASHINGTON - President Bush was in the Rose Garden, laying out the details of a resolution against Iraq as Republicans stood loyally behind him. But there was another face in this familiar picture yesterday: House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt, standing beside a president who is aggressively raising money to block the Democrats from winning a majority in the House. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1003-01.htm

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THE CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION
Bush Strikes Deal for House Backing on Action in Iraq
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and ALISON MITCHELL

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — President Bush reached an agreement today with House leaders on a proposal authorizing him to use force against Iraq, a deal that Democrats acknowledged cleared the way for approval of a joint Congressional resolution supporting action against Saddam Hussein.

"We will not leave the future of peace and the security of America in the hands of this cruel and dangerous man," Mr. Bush said in announcing the deal in the White House Rose Garden.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/03/politics/03IRAQ.html



US Hardline on Iraq Leaves Full-Scale Invasion a 'Hair-Trigger' Away
by Julian Borger in Washington, Ewen MacAskill, and Ian Black in Brussels
Thursday, October 3, 2002 in the Guardian/UK

Washington last night revealed its intention to use UN weapons inspections as a possible first step towards a military occupation of Iraq by sending in troops, sealing off "exclusion zones" and creating secure corridors throughout the country.

In a leaked proposal for a UN resolution drafted by the US with help from British officials, the Bush administration is seeking to transform the inspections process into a coercive operation. The resolution would place a full-scale invasion of Iraq on a hair trigger, authorizing UN member states "to use all necessary means to restore international peace and security" if Iraq does so much as make an omission in the weapons inventories it presents to the security council. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1003-03.htm



THE INTELLIGENCE DISPUTE
C.I.A. Rejects Request for Report on Preparations for War in Iraq
By JAMES RISEN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — The Central Intelligence Agency has refused to provide Congress a comprehensive report on its role in a possible American campaign against Iraq, setting off a bitter dispute between the agency and leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Congressional leaders said today.

In a contentious, closed-door Senate hearing today, agency officials refused to comply with a request from the committee for a broad review of how the intelligence community's clandestine role against the government of Saddam Hussein would be coordinated with the diplomatic and military actions that the Bush administration is planning.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/03/politics/03INTE.html