Word: dictatorship
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...even children. Armed revolutionaries manned checkpoints at every corner. A boy of about 11 pointed an automatic rifle at my chest, safety off, and asked for identification, which he couldn't read. After considerable vacillation, the military leadership declared its neutrality. The Ayatullah went on radio to announce, "The dictatorship has abandoned its last trench...
...What this may imply for the future is that there will be no quick fix for Iraq. After the Hussein dictatorship is deposed, the culture and economy of these people will have to be rebuilt from the most basic level...
When Bush called Iraq part of the “axis of evil,” he was being practical, not imperialistic. By acknowledging that Saddam’s dictatorship is mired in bloody Baathist ideology and a hateful doctrine of racial superiority, Bush acknowledges that in the interest of peace Saddam must go. This is a difficult judgment to make, that sometimes a nation’s leader is so corrupted by evil that justice cannot prevail under his rule. Bush has reserved such a judgment only for the world’s most repressive dictatorships. The peace protesters...
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT According to its constitution, Iraq is a democratic republic with an elected President and a 250-member parliament. In practice, it is a dictatorship. The ruling Baath Party has controlled all branches of government since it took control in 1968. The party's Revolutionary Command Council supposedly determines government policy; in fact, it does the bidding of Saddam, its chairman since 1979. The parliament rubber-stamps all council decisions. Last October Saddam officially won 100% of the vote in a referendum on his presidency, with many ballots cast in blood as a show of dedication...
...Council of State, Cuba's supreme governing body; in Havana. Castro is now the world's longest-serving head of state and has been Cuba's unchallenged strongman since 1959, when his guerrilla movement, led by Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, overthrew the island-state's military dictatorship. In 1962, Castro almost caused a nuclear war when he allowed the then Soviet Union to base long-range ballistic missiles in Cuba, prompting a tense face-off between Washington and Moscow until the Soviets backed down and removed the weapons...