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...project ought to be abandoned. It was a creature of the United States in the first place." RAMSEY CLARK, former U.S. Attorney General and member of Saddam Hussein's defense team, claiming that political pressures on the court make it difficult to hold a fair trial...
...Bush talks about Palestinians he sounds like Ted Kennedy talking about Americans? It came about the old-fashioned way, through utter policy failure. Bush's flashy love affair with democracy is a fallback position: it ascended when the original rationale for the war in Iraq-the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction-receded. Bush was dismissive of "nation building" in his 2000 presidential campaign. By the 2004 race, however, a staple of his stump speech was, "Freedom isn't America's gift to the world...
RESIGNED. RIZKAR MOHAMMED AMIN, as chief judge of the tribunal overseeing the trial of Saddam Hussein; "for personal reasons," he said in a statement; in Baghdad. The Iraqi government did not immediately accept the resignation of Amin, who has been criticized for allowing Saddam's frequent outbursts. The trial is set to resume this week after a month's recess...
...some latter-day Henry VIII would appear on the scene and expel the Vatican. Alessandro Berrini Milan Exit Strategy The average American is simply sick of the U.S.'s spending our money and our young people's lives for political ideals [Dec. 5]. What would Americans do if Saddam Hussein or any other world leader believed that Bush was evil and decided to trump up charges to end his term? I'm a Vietnam veteran, and if that happened, I would start making some car bombs. What right do we have to police the world? Iraq is an Arab problem...
...troops, Brig. Ailwin-Foster has had plenty of interaction with the American military. And, having myself watched the U.S. military from close quarters in Iraq for nearly three years, I find it hard to disagree with him. American cultural insensitivity was on display even in the minutes before Saddam Hussein's statue was famously toppled in Baghdad - remember the soldier who covered the statue's head with the Stars and Stripes? The Iraqis gathered in the square to celebrate the dictator's downfall took offense to that gesture...