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Most U.S. citizens do not follow international politics closely enough to realize that the current war in Iraq could be just the first in a series of such wars. In September 2002, the administration issued a revised National Security Strategy , which put the world on notice that the United States would wage war not only in response to attack, but ... to prevent possible future attacks. This policy -- which has absolutely no basis in international law -- is the pretext for the war on Iraq. It could just as easily apply to Syria, Iran, Libya, or North Korea. The WBUR program On Point addresses the question of whether Syria is the next target .
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Iraq is very dependent on water from Tigris and Euphrates, as there is little rain falling here. Annual rainfall in inhabited areas varies between 150 mm (south) and 700 mm (north). Baghdad has middle temperatures varying between 10ºC and 34ºC. Winters can be very cold up in the mountains in the north, which take up less than 5% of all of Iraq territory. The area of the two rivers, where most people now live, is swampy, but irrigation is extensively used to help agriculture, which once was the foundation of the very first civilizations in history of man: Mesopotamia.
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Over at The Command Post, Laurence Simon posts about the capture of an Italian journalist, Enzo Baldoni, in Iraq. As you might have expected, the captors have said that if Italian troops didn't leave Iraq, they "could not guarantee his safety."
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