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Ok, I'm sure some of you have seen this hideous nonsense. Actually I hope the ad below shows up in this post. What 5 year old came up with "Showdown Iraq"?

Is Don Rumsfeld in charge of CNN? The media is selling this war as if it was "The Rumble In The Jungle". I can't be the only one that's got a problem with this.

 

 

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WARNING: Image embedded by poster. INSPECTIONS
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WARNING: Image embedded by poster. WARNING: Image embedded by poster. After four years, U.N. weapons inspectors are back in Iraq after a new U.N. resolution demanded their return. On January 27, Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, told the U.N. Security Council that Iraq could not account for stocks of anthrax and a deadly nerve gas that it said it had destroyed.
 • More | Interactive: Security Council on Iraq
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WARNING: Image embedded by poster. TIME: TARGET SADDAM
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WARNING: Image embedded by poster. WARNING: Image embedded by poster. TIME's in-depth coverage of the debate over invading Iraq, the mechanics of regime change and the challenge of securing and supporting a post-Saddam Iraq.
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WARNING: Image embedded by poster. SHOWDOWN: IRAQ
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WARNING: Image embedded by poster. WARNING: Image embedded by poster. Watch SHOWDOWN: IRAQ anchored by CNN's Wolf Blitzer daily at noon (ET) on CNN USA for in-depth coverage of the conflict in Iraq.
 • Wolf Blitzer Reports

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WARNING: Image embedded by poster. REGIME CHANGE
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WARNING: Image embedded by poster. WARNING: Image embedded by poster. From building ties to Saddam to removing him from power, the U.S. urges for a regime change.
 • Bush touts 'first strike' doctrine
 • Supporting Saddam vs. removing him
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WARNING: Image embedded by poster. THE UNFINISHED WAR
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WARNING: Image embedded by poster. WARNING: Image embedded by poster. Operation Desert Storm quickly drove Iraq's armies from Kuwait but Iraqi President Saddam Hussein remained in power. Ten years later, CNN examines the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War.
 • Special Report
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WARNING: Image embedded by poster. WARNING: Image embedded by poster. ore than 10 years after the Persian Gulf War, the world is locked in another showdown with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Iraq has accepted a new U.N. resolution demanding that U.N. inspectors be given unhindered access to any suspected Iraqi weapons site or face "serious consequences." But President George W. Bush has warned that the United States will have "zero tolerance" for any Iraqi interference with inspections and made it clear that it will launch military strikes against Iraq if it deems it necessary.
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