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As the deadline for Iraq to declare its weapons program nears, U.S. and Iraqi leaders have continued to trade accusations. Two opinion writers discuss the charged rhetoric between the Bush administration and the government of Saddam Hussein.

Assessing the results of a new poll on U.S. world policy with Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, which conducted the survey, and two opinion writers.

Military forces from around the world have been sent to the Horn of Africa for training on how to fight terrorist operatives and to prepare for a possible war against Iraq. In the first of two reports, Michael Gordon looks…