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...June 7, 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, called Osirak, which had been sold to the Baathist government by France in November 1975. The air strike, known as “Operation Babylon,” was carried out to prevent Hussein??s engineers from constructing a nuclear weapon that could have been used against Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin stressed that a pre-emptive disabling of the Osirak reactor was wholly justified as a means of national self-defense...
...Saddam Hussein?? of Continuing Education...
...Government continued to execute summarily alleged political opponents and leaders in the Shi’ite religious community. Reports suggest that persons were executed merely because of their association with an opposition group or as part of a continuing effort to reduce prison populations.” Saddam Hussein??s actions speak for themselves; he is, and always has been, a cruel and dangerous leader for the Iraqi people...
Furthermore, releasing the plan reinforces other nations’ fears about America taking unilateral action, possibly provoking an international backlash. If Bush wants the support of the international community, he should continue to place increasing emphasis on Hussein??s most recent offences...
...Despite Hussein??s deplorable human rights record, the charges against him are not new nor are they different from those against dictators in all too many countries. However, the United States is not rushing to be the moral protector of the downtrodden elsewhere. What is different about Iraq is oil, and the Staff naively dismisses oil’s central role, as well as the Bush administration’s history of accommodating the oil industry. America cannot in good faith try to take the moral high ground on this issue...