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...question, nor should it ever. Instead, al-Rubaie’s prediction seems laughable because Saddam’s execution was overrun by the endless sectarian violence that has come to dominate this new page in Iraqi history, which may be just as dark as Saddam’s. Hussein??s trial and execution were supposed to provide a historical reckoning, a sense of closure, and an opportunity for the Iraqis to establish an autonomous system of justice. Given Iraqi standards of justice, that end would have best been served by a professional and staid hanging. Instead...
...year has brought with it a clear message that the Bush-Rumsfeld misadventure of going solo into Iraq needs reexamination. As Saddam Hussein??s coffin, strapped to a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter, traveled across the desert, the Pentagon reported that U.S. deaths in Iraq have reached a new high of 3,000 since the conflict began in 2003. Although President Bush has held intensive strategic meetings with his new Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, and other top security and army officials, his response to the report of the respected Iraq Study Group (ISG) has yet to materialize...
...really is the driving force behind the conflicts that are commonly attributed to it. Many people in Ireland insist that the Ulster conflict is about British rule versus Irish unification, not about Protestantism versus Catholicism. And among the Islam-aligned forces with which our country is currently entangled, Saddam Hussein??s Baathism is more secular and nationalist than it is religious. Whether or not religion is a major force is a question best left to our colleagues in history, government, and area studies, in the context of the broadest possible study of world affairs. This empirical issue should...
...wrong for the U.S. to promote democracy around the world,” he said. “I would have liked for him to say what the U.S. should have done about Saddam Hussein??s atrocities and persistent threat...
...whether to liberate Iraq, but why we have not done so already.” In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, al-Suwaij wrote: “On behalf of Iraqis who cannot speak openly with reporters or who have given their lives trying to free Iraq from Hussein??s brutal rule, let me say clearly: American, British and other allied soldiers are a sign of hope and liberation.” The AIC director has continued to celebrate the American misadventure in Iraq, even as the occupation there grows more gruesome every day.Furthermore, the main guest...