Word: baathist
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...deadly attacks - has turned up the domestic political pressure on the Bush administration to provide answers over what is transpiring in Iraq, and how soon Americans might expect to be out of there. Although administration officials have stuck fast to the suggestion that the attacks are the work of Baathist "bitter-enders," criminals and foreign terrorists, U.S. commanders on the ground are far less certain about the composition of the force or forces confronting them. Whoever is conducting these attacks, however, has clearly found a sufficiently permissive environment in the environs of the Iraqi capital and the "Sunni Triangle...
...refuse," complains Dawud Hassan, director of the international division of Iraq's Rafidain Bank, which Saddam used for foreign transactions. Hassan says the Iraqi secret police--the only people Saddam trusted with the money--controlled the accounts, and he suspects the money could today be helping underwrite Iraq's Baathist resistance...
...naivete, and some that carried unfortunate unintended consequences. The Administration's leading members, said Democratic Senator Joseph Biden last week, "believed we would find an oil-rich, functioning country, that we'd be met by cheering crowds, that all we had to do was sweep out the top Baathist layers, implant our favorite exiles and watch democracy take root as the bulk of the troops returned home by Christmas." Allowing for Bidenesque hyperbole, that is not far off the mark. Bureaucratic infighting, wishful thinking and--at least according to his many rivals--an undue influence in Washington exerted by Ahmed...
Decks of cards depicting Iraq's most-wanted Baathist honchos have sold briskly since they were first offered on GreatUSAflags.com in April. More than 2.5 million of those decks have been snapped up. Now merchandisers with cards featuring everything from Hillary Clinton's quips to California's gubernatorial candidates are trying to cash in--and deal their own blow in the political and culture wars. By Unmesh Kher...
...becomes tougher still when the White House asks Congress for another $87 billion and is told that $42 billion has to be rustled up by other countries. Nor is it easy to wake up to the fact that ultrasmart weapons, though wonderful for winning wars, are useless against Baathist thugs and water shortages. To win the peace, legitimacy is as vital as physical reconstruction. And both require help from the rest of the world. The lesson for America is harsh but essential: Even the mightiest nation on earth can't go it alone. The Europeans: they have been bitten...