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Early Shots At Obama.(International Edition; ROGUE'S GALLERY)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)

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Byline: Adam B. Kushner

There will be no honeymoon for Barack Obama on the Axis of Evil. Though Obama campaigned on a promise to talk to American enemies whom George Bush had once shunned, including erstwhile members of his Axis of Evil--Iran, North Korea and Iraq--they responded by pre-emptively hardening their bargaining positions. North Korea welcomed Obama by saying that it had not agreed to fully open its nuclear sites to international inspection, even though the Bush administration said it had. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad backtracked from a warm letter he'd sent to Obama by demanding last week that Washington furnish "mutual respect"--in other words, an assurance Obama won't seek regime change and will accept Iran's nuclear program.

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