41. For example, because the ruling coalition in parliament is in such disarray, little legislation has passed in the last seven months. 42. For Nader, this new coalition is a logical result of money politics. 43. He said a coalition must be both inclusive and authorized by the United Nations. 44. How big this coalition is will decide the result. 45. If the coalition is successful, a likely appeal would increase pressure on the Supreme Court to decide the issue. 46. If the United States-led coalition that crushed Iraq in the gulf conflict had been inclined to do so, it could have wiped Iraq off the map. 47. In the campaign against terrorism, led by the son of the president who decided not to pursue Saddam, the coalition is larger and looser. 48. It is in coalition with a party headed by his former prime minister, but that coalition is distinctly fragile. 49. Nobody knows better than Hussein that the gulf war coalition is in tatters and that time is on his side. 50. Not that the coalition is home free. |