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...safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without him." IYAD ALLAWI, Prime Minister of Iraq, speaking at the White House about the war that drove Saddam Hussein from power...
...detonated the country's first nuclear device in the Rajasthan desert; he was later appointed scientific adviser to the Defense Ministry and head of the Department of Atomic Energy. A skilled pianist and author of a book on music theory, he once reportedly declined an offer from Saddam Hussein to help Iraq develop its own nuclear program...
DELIGHTED BUSH BACKERS COULD ONLY savor the satisfaction that of all the media titans it was Dan Rather who had been humbled: he who had famously tangled with Bush's father during the 1988 campaign, had ingratiatingly interviewed Saddam Hussein during the walk-up to the war and had been the featured speaker at a 2001 Texas Democratic fund raiser (even if he did apologize later), and whom his colleague Andy Rooney describes as "transparently liberal." Within hours of the 60 Minutes broadcast Sept. 8, skeptical bloggers were spitting challenges to the authenticity of the CBS documents on Internet sites...
Between 10,000 and 30,000 of Iraq's 800,000 Christians have fled the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, according to Christian groups in Baghdad. Although Christians make up only about 3% of Iraq's 25 million people, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has said they account for about 20% of the refugees fleeing Iraq for Syria. They are escaping a climate of violence and a surging Islamic radicalism that have made the practice of their faith a deadly enterprise...
...acted any way other than we did after the events of 9/11 would have been dangerously naive. Michael Poppen Sioux Falls, South Dakota, U.S. I admire the way the president stands up for what he believes in and makes tough decisions rather than trying to be Mr. Popular. Saddam Hussein would have done something terrible down the road, and Bush knew the way to act was quickly, while Iraq was vulnerable. Joseph Zoltek Glenside, Pennsylvania, U.S. Bush ought to remember the words of H.L. Mencken: "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong...