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...Arab sheiks has gathered to discuss the jihad they and their followers are waging against the U.S. The men wear white robes and long beards and greet each other solemnly. They are all Iraqi, but their beliefs are those of the strict Wahhabi strain of Islam repressed under Saddam Hussein. Unlike most Iraqi sitting rooms, this one has no pictures adorning its walls or a television or radio nestled in a corner. Such luxuries are forbidden, just as they were under the Taliban in Afghanistan. At the back of the room are a few men from Saudi Arabia, who stand...
...rubble after American bombs dropped? Why didn’t we ever see footage of injured soldiers, wincing in pain over amputated limbs, or the hundreds of flag-draped coffins? Why didn’t we ever get replays of Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell assuring us that Saddam Hussein was not a threat just a year or two before we invaded Iraq? Meanwhile, Moore shows us what we do see—news anchors vowing blindly to support the troops—as his justification for presenting information the way he does. He’s not trying...
...Actually said last week, with a straight face, regarding Saddam Hussein...
...Because of President Bush's leadership, an enemy of all Jews and an enemy of Israel was finally vanquished." NOAM NEUSNER, White House liaison, in an e-mail to Jewish community leaders, promoting a speech delivered by Bush in which he declared the world safer since Saddam Hussein's fall from power...
...made to push forward. And after Bremer handed a blue document binder to Allawi in a small ceremony deep in the fortified Green Zone, it became official that Iraq was its own country and the U.S. immediately restored diplomatic relations that had been severed in 1990 after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait...