The West, insists Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, is exaggerating the humanitarian crisis to find a pretext for invasion.

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Antagonists, however, always will find a pretext for fighting.

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The Administration would like nothing better than to find a pretext for deferring a decision on deploying missile defenses -- if it could do so without exposing Al Gore to undue political risk.

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