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<p>Sen. Joe Lieberman has set in motion an important line of discussion concerning post-Iraq War policy and politics. While he made a partisan — but not entirely unfair — critique of President Bush's management of prewar preparations and postwar execution of policy, the crux of his speech was a fierce criticism of those Democrats who displayed a "disquietingzeal" questioning the necessity of the war: "[B]y their words, some in my party are sending out a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly, they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom." After his speech, he named Howard Dean, John Kerry and Richard Gephardt as fitting that description.</p>

"US will lose war", says former UN inspector March 26 2003 at 06:42PM Lisbon - The United States does not have the military means to take over Baghdad and will lose the war against Iraq, former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter said. "The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated. It is a war we can not win," he told private radio TSF in an interview broadcast here Tuesday evening. "We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat of the United...

About 200 Palestinian journalists and writers rallied in Gaza City against the war in Iraq on Wednesday, holding Palestinian and Iraqi flags and chanting, "People of Iraq, we are with you!" Also, about 100 women gathered outside the UN office in Gaza, asking the organization to intervene in Iraq. They held pictures of women and children who they said were injured during the recent US-led strikes. "The world should protest the ongoing war and they should say no to America," said Fadwa Mattar, 39, one of the demonstrators. Two American cruise missiles struck a residential area in Baghdad on Wednesday,...

An unidentified participant in an anti-war rally takes a sign away from a man supporting a contrary view during a protest against the possibility of war with Iraq, on the campus at the University of California-Los Angeles Wednesday, March 5, 2003.

<p>Ten songs into the Pretenders' Saturday show at the Warfield, singer- guitarist Chrissie Hynde pithily summed up her group's enduring appeal and, in the process, the appeal of rock music as a whole.</p> <p>"I think our band represents all the great losers of the world," she told a cheering sold-out crowd. "Because it's all about the losing." With that, she handed off her guitar, grabbed the microphone and led the Pretenders into the power ballad/anti-anthem "The Losing," off their 2002 album, "Loose Screw."</p>