- Making News: Saddam-s Capture and US-Europe Relations
After winning agreement from French President Jacques Chirac and West German Chancellor Gerhardt Schroeder, former Secretary of State James Baker now travels to Russia to get it to help Iraq-s reconstruction by relieving its debt. Is the detention of Saddam Hussein making his task easier? The Christian Science Monitor's Howard La Franchi is following the efforts to stabilize the Gulf and repair damaged transatlantic relations. - Reporter's Notebook: Saddam, the Paranoid Narcissist
Former President George H. W. Bush once compared Saddam Hussein to Adolph Hitler, but one student of political leaders says Saddam is much more like Joseph Stalin. Richard Dekmejian, a professor of political science at the University of Southern California, is working on the psycho-political profile, Profiles in Power-but it-s not what the former dictator-s friends had in mind.
LaFranchi's article on possibilities of capture improving US-European relations
President Bush on the capture of Saddam Hussein
John Kerry address on foreign policy in a post-Saddam world
Joseph Lieberman's statement on Saddam's capture
Dick Gephardt on Dean's foreign policy speech
NBC-Wall Street Journal Poll on President Bush
Gallup Poll on Baghdadis' hopes and dreams for Iraq's future
Shapiro's article on undecided voters and Democratic presidential nomination