Word: dictatorship
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...representative democracy, the distinction between dying for one’s government and dying for one’s country does not exist. Zinn confuses the United States, a free country ruled by principles that the majority agrees are important, with a dictatorship centered on the individual leader’s ambitions—Saddam’s Iraq, for example. Unlike Saddam’s terror campaigns, U.S. military intervention isn’t personal. Bush’s foreign policy isn’t personal. Both serve American interests in security and peace; if Bush is reelected...
...remain against the war, but I congratulate the soldiers of the U.S. and its allies for freeing the Iraqis from a terrible dictatorship." ABDOU RAZAC AMBALI New York City...
...always agree with President Bush's sometimes arrogant rhetoric, and I may not feel he is the most diplomatic man in the world, but he got the job in Iraq done with relatively few casualties and freed the Iraqi people from a cruel, long-standing dictatorship. So I ask anyone critical of Bush and how he has handled the war, Could you have done it any better? LEIGH GERNERT Los Angeles...
...Regardless of whether the United Nations supported the war against Iraq, the U.S. military has destroyed Iraq’s dictatorship and there is a power vacuum that must be filled by a new government that can be trusted by the people of Iraq and by foreign leaders. It is the U.N., not the U.S., that has credibility and support from the people of Iraq, its neighbors and many of America’s allies. The U.N. is the best body to provide leadership and power for the fledgling new government in Iraq, and the U.S. is obliged to pull...
...been preternaturally good at dispatching his enemies before they could get to him. And he plans ahead. Beneath the opulent marble palaces from which he has ruled, he built deep concrete bunkers reinforced with steel, stocked with weapons and linked to underground escape tunnels--the architectural metaphor for a dictatorship whose grandiose facade has rested on a foundation of insecurity. As U.S. bombs blasted apart those last-resort fortifications, even Saddam presumably had to take U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seriously when he declared, "The days of the Saddam Hussein regime are numbered...