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Germany won't send troops to Iraq From correspondents in Berlin October 13, 2004 THE German government said today it won't budge from its refusal to send troops to Iraq, reinforcing its position after the country's defence minister appeared to suggest that Berlin might one day consider a deployment. Germany strongly opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq and has refused to send any troops to the country - a position that officials have said will hold no matter who wins the US presidential election. "I want to say clearly and unmistakably what the chancellor told the Cabinet: the position of the...

A Non-Nuanced Middle East Peace Plan Posted 10/11/2004 By Rick Richman In the October 7, 2004 issue of The New York Review of Books, Rob Malley, who was part of the U.S. team at Camp David, reviewed Dennis Ross's book on the peace process (The Missing Peace) and came to a conclusion very different from Ross. For reasons that will not be evident at first, it is a conclusion worth studying. In his book, Ross blamed the collapse of the Oslo peace process on Yasir Arafat, as well as the failure of the U.S. to insist, as part of the...