11.   But the Europeans are most worried about how the Bush administration will choose to prosecute the war on terrorism after Afghanistan.

12.   But the general staff insisted that Putin grant them total freedom to prosecute the war.

13.   But they said the notion of announcing and prosecuting a war against someone like bin Laden posed significant conceptual problems, both for policy-makers and the American people.

14.   He has every right to prosecute a war and restore order.

15.   He is, for the moment, in a singularly powerful position to prosecute that war.

16.   His administration has prosecuted the war in Afghanistan with remarkable dispatch and skill.

17.   In prosecuting the war and in arbitrarily arresting and mistreating its Kurdish citizens, Turkey has engaged in a consistent pattern of human rights abuses.

18.   In prosecuting the war in Chechnya, Putin has proved not just indifferent but belligerent toward international criticism of Russian behavior there.

19.   It also instructs us in a more general way about the often messy and adversarial behind-the-scenes business of hammering out policy and prosecuting a war.

20.   It was that incident that allowed the president to win congressional passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which he then used as a mandate to prosecute the war.