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<p>The solid reasons for going to war with Iraq — and rebuilding that nation as a democracy — are cogently and succinctly sketched in Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol's slim volume "The War Against Iraq." The case does not rest upon humanitarian concerns alone, but if it did, it would still be powerful.</p>

43rd day of 2003 - 322 remaining Wednesday, February 12, 2003 HONEST ABE DAY His life was what America was all about. An average boy, born on this day in 1809 on a farm in a log cabin in Hodgenville, Kentucky, was able to become the 16th President of the United States. He studied hard, by the light of a fireplace, to become first, a lawyer, then a statesman. Abraham Lincoln, one of the most revered U.S. Presidents, served his country during one of the most turbulent times in its history. The term of his presidency (1861-1865) encompassed the...