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...when dealing with the twinned subjects of Saddam Hussein’s regime and President Bush’s invasion. Times reporter Burns drew prominent media attention this fall when Embedded included his excoriation of those of his colleagues whom he saw as kowtowing to the Ba’athist government before the invasion...
After this act of treason, the Dixie Chicks, or perhaps more accurately called the “Ba’athist Chicks,” no longer deserved their former place in our society: that of the cheerfully brainless pop act that amused us with their shiny hair and their shinier outfits. The Chicks had a brain now, and they had an idea…called treason. Much like a TF who comes to the painful realization that one of his students is actually smarter than him, we Americans had to face the awful reality that our own vacuous, bubble...
...them. The Iraqi leader may be beloved on the Palestinian street for his defiance of the U.S., but he has never been a significant factor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His only direct presence in Palestinian politics comes in the form of the Arab Liberation Front, a miniscule Ba'athist organization based in the northern West Bank. And while the president is correct in charging that Saddam provides lavish compensation to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, he is hardly alone among Arab leaders in doing...
...rare to find both an ardent Islamist and a committed Ba'athist living under the same roof. Zaki could scarcely be more different from Muntaha. He speaks without a sense of bravado, and smiles wanly when his sister interrupts him with some pro-Saddam sloganeering. There's little in his bearing to suggest that he is patriarch of a family of 20, including three widowed sisters and 12 children. He is a calligrapher by trade and makes around 75,000 dinars a month. "I am poor in money," he says, shyly, "but thanks to God, I am rich in family...
Palestinian sources say the Ba'athist Arab Liberation Front, funded by Saddam, is gaining strength, particularly in the northern West Bank towns of Jenin and Nablus. The A.L.F. is under popular pressure to act in order to keep up with its rival, Hizballah, which is backed by Saddam's archenemy, Iran. Hizballah is making big new inroads in the West Bank with its tight organization and the roadside bombs. Palestinian and Israeli officials expect that it is only a matter of time before A.L.F. activists begin to fight--probably by shooting at Israeli settlers on isolated West Bank roads. Even...