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Iraq's Aziz Says U.S. Attack Would Fail Tue Aug 20, 9:50 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz dared President Bush ( news - web sites) on Tuesday to try to oust Saddam Hussein ( news - web sites), saying any attempt to do so would end in failure. Aziz, in an interview on CBS Evening News, said Iraq had not been intimidated by Bush's commitment to changing the Baghdad government and widespread expectations that Washington was planning a military strike. "We are defending our independence, we are defending our integrity, we are defending our...

The language of leftism is out of date. It desperately needs reconstruction and revitalisation, if the Left is ever to regain its proper status as a voice of ethical critique of materialistic modern society. As a registered Democrat who voted for the fringe-left Ralph Nader for President in 2000, I am well aware of the decline in prestige and effectiveness of leftist organisations since their high point in the 1960s. The large demonstrations against globalisation two years ago, for example, made scarcely a ripple in the US and have already been forgotten. One problem is that too many leftist periodicals...