In Appeal For Diplomacy, Obama Invokes The Mushroom Cloud
Nearly a decade ago, a President of the United States used the specter of a nuclear blast to argue his case for invading a foreign country. "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud," President Bush's then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told CNN in 2002, a sound bite that came to define the rationale for a pre-emptive war in Iraq despite the lack of proof that it presented a WMD threat.
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MIDDLE EAST
China cools push for sanctions on Iran.
Iraqi leader warns nearby nations against meddling.
Israel defends West Bank ID policy.
US and Israel: An unsettled alliance.
ASIA
In Afghanistan war, government corruption bigger threat than Taliban.
Kyrgyz government tells Bakiyev to surrender by day's end.
U.S. military playing expanded role in Pakistan. Pakistan airstrike kills 71 civilians: official.
Japan to investigate China warships near Okinawa.
Thailand seeks way out of political crisis.
AFRICA
Red Cross: 8 staff kidnapped in eastern Congo.
Acting leader of Nigeria tries to reassure skeptics.
Campaigning in Sudan.
Somalia fighting leaves 19 dead in capital Mogadishu.
Somali radio stations comply with Islamists' music ban.
EUROPE
Polish leader eyes quick election after crash.
Ukraine agrees to abandon nuclear weapons in first victory for Obama initiative.
Vatican tells bishops to report clerical sex abuse to police.
AMERICAS
Bodies of all dead W.Va. miners recovered.
U.S. deficit down in first half 2010: report.
Costa Rica leader calls for Honduras return to OAS.
TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR
Gita Sahgal, who criticised Amnesty’s ‘pro-jihadi’ links, leaves job.
Q+A - Obama summit to highlight threat of nuclear terrorism.
ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS
U.S. interest rates have nowhere to go but up.
Income falls 3.2% during Obama's term.
Recession over? Economists panel isn't sure yet.
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