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...what had been said in that debate was not accurate,” he said. “There’s been a lot of talk about American human rights abuses, so I asked them how they justified supporting policies that would’ve allowed Saddam Hussein??s regime to remain in power, given the massive and institutional nature of the human rights abuses that occurred under...
Annan has also shown a tendency to assume that peace is secured by paper or verbal promises from dictators. An eye-opening example of this came in Feb. 1998, when he traveled to Baghdad following Saddam Hussein??s obstruction of U.N. weapons inspectors. Annan smoked Cuban cigars with the Iraqi tyrant, praised him as a man of “courage” and a “builder,” and cut a deal to keep the inspections going. Before leaving, the secretary-general told a reporter that Iraq had been unfairly “demonized?...
Throughout the book, journalist after journalist reveals objectivity to be an extraordinarily slippery concept when dealing with the twinned subjects of Saddam Hussein??s regime and President Bush’s invasion. Times reporter Burns drew prominent media attention this fall when Embedded included his excoriation of those of his colleagues whom he saw as kowtowing to the Ba’athist government before the invasion...
...years as the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Muslim, consistently demonstrated support for violence against his country’s Shiite population. However, Hussein??s support for the violence was conditional: he had to be the one perpetrating it. So it was not a conventional expression of religious freedom when, last week, thousands of Shiite men took to the streets of Karbala, Iraq, to do something that the Baathi leader had made illegal for over two decades—beat, whip and knife themselves until their faces and clothing were drenched in blood...
...Iraq out of his mind. “For class we’re supposed to be doing a sculpture and somehow Saddam’s face just gets incorporated into it.” Apparently Stern has taken more than a piece of Uday Hussein??s marble wall away from his experience in Iraq...