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...Africa, Romania or even the Philippines, each a place where democracy germinated because its seed was planted by the populace. Narmada Guruswamy Aberdeen, Scotland Now that the war in Iraq has gone awry, Sullivan is wrong again about the war. The U.S. did not go to war against Saddam Hussein because Iraqis were starving and there was corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program. The U.S. went to war in Iraq ostensibly to contain Islamic terrorism. But the allegation that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was just an excuse to invade, and Iraq was not a base...
...still has a challenge to put in place systems that are robust enough to give managers assurance that they know what's happening. But if you take the oil-for-food issue, let's remember that the real corruption was between Saddam Hussein and thousands of companies...
...hyper-funny side is in its prime, frequently teased out by his hyperactive Opposition counterpart, Kevin Rudd. Far from the kiss-kiss world of diplomacy, political beasts Downer and Rudd often rumble in their very own hyperbolic chamber. While the prevailing contest is about Australia's participation in Saddam Hussein's corruption of the humanitarian aid program to Iraq, it would be wrong to see Downer vs. Rudd as mere rhetorical overkill...
...Before the usual voices claim that the sectarian violence in Iraq is evidence of the futility of toppling Saddam Hussein, consider that the worst repressor of individual freedom in the Middle East?Iran?is still busy fomenting strife among its neighbors. Its hand shows up in not just Iraq but also Syria and Lebanon. It is convenient for Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, to blame the U.S. for Iraq's current troubles while his agents are busy there. Iran's militant regime is sowing chaos in the Middle East as it goes flat out to develop nuclear weapons...
...Three years ago I had no doubt that removal of Saddam Hussein, one of the world's most blood-thirsty despots, is the just and well-founded venture. I haven't changed this opinion. I have also believed then that if the USA was saying that Iraq had the mass destruction weapons and the world security was threatened because of that, it was true. It appeared that it was not true. I thought that when the world's superpower undertakes a war, it has not only a plan how to win a military operation, but also a plan...