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America's war with itself
by Brendan O'Neill - Sp!ked Online - 20 December 2002
Now I'm confused. After a month of weapons inspections, one apparently dodgy dossier from Saddam and a rumoured 'material breach' of the UN resolution, is the Bush administration ready and raring to attack Iraq - or not? Guardian columnist Matthew Engel reckons that the USA is about to get busy. In a column headlined 'Ready for battle', Engel argues that 'the energy behind this enterprise has such power that it has long been difficult to imagine the circumstances in which it wouldn't happen'. 'Behind the Bushies' enthusiasm for war', writes Engel, 'the political timetable is creating the same sense of inevitability as the railway timetable in 1914'. But according to the London Times, some of America's top military men - in fact, the top military men - are getting cold feet about all-out war. 'General Eric Shinseki, chief of the US Army, and General James Jones, commandant of the US Marines Corps, fear that the present war plan dangerously underestimates the risks of attacking Iraq', says The Times. How can bombing Baghdad be 'inevitable' if even Shinseki and Jones are voicing their doubts?

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