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(From University Wire)
Byline: Darcy Copeland
It was a proclamation of war. While U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech before the United Nations Security Council did not officially constitute a declaration of war, it bore all the earmarks of it.
War, after all, is defined as a "state of hostility, conflict or antagonism." Certainly Powell qualified that definition in his persuasive presentation Wednesday of Iraq's blatant defiance of U.N policy.
Powell spent two hours detailing evidence that Iraq is purposefully deceiving the United Nations. He shared satellite pictures of 15 munitions bunkers, four of which he claimed held active…