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Orthodox opinion in the Democratic Party holds that there was never any real linkage between Saddam Hussein??s regime and Osama bin Laden, and the Bush administration either “exaggerated” or outright lied about such a connection during the build-up to war. This assumption has become pervasive on talk shows and editorial pages. Indeed, many Democrats and liberal pundits speak as if the Baathist-al Qaeda connection had been conclusively refuted...
Carter said that Iranian and North Korean officials likely believe that “Saddam Hussein??s mistake wasn’t in going too far, it was in not going far enough...
...Iraq was, at least in part, an example of this Bush doctrine in action. The Bush Administration’s concern over Saddam Hussein??s apparently insatiable appetite for WMD, weapons of mass destruction, constituted a major element in the case for war. Iraq’s failure to comply with the disarmament provisions of U.N. resolutions dating back to the 1991 Gulf War was the cause of the international crisis that, after much diplomatic wrangling, led to war. Ultimately, Washington concluded that regime change was the only reliable and durable solution to the threat posed by Baghdad?...
With the overthrow of Saddam Hussein??s regime in Iraq, the United States has fulfilled the first half of the British contract. It remains to be seen whether this nation has the will and the commitment to achieve the next, more important step: building of democratic institutions and fostering economic development...
...looting was not even the crime of the week. (That dubious award might go to the slaughter of three hundred and fifty people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.) Hundreds of Iraqi civilians died in the invasion of Iraq, not to mention the thousands who disappeared under Saddam Hussein??s despotic rule. Crime of the century? There is nothing poetic about this hyperbole; it is an outright insult to humanity...