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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/international/middleeast/20IRAQ.html
Iraq Views a World Filled with Allies
(New York Times) - Iraq's leaders appear to have concluded that this time, the world is on their side and against the United States. But amid the speeches boasting Iraq's defiance, there was also a sense that Baghdad's aging leaders were busy trying to persuade themselves that they could somehow ride out the most serious threat yet to their power.