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...that Blair has supported the Americans in a bad war without "getting" anything in return is misconceived. Blair did not go to war to meet an American loyalty test - he was a willing and even enthusiastic participant. He had long been convinced of the need to deal with Saddam Hussein, and was quite sure that Iraq was reconstituting its chemical and biological weapons programs. During the Clinton years, he was if anything frustrated with the Americans for not being energetic enough when taking on international rogues. Nor is it the case that President Bush ignores his views. The prewar diplomacy...
...HUSSEIN MALLA/AP Iraqis found something to celebrate last week when the Iraq national soccer team beat Saudi Arabia, 3-1, to qualify for its first-ever Olympic berth. Baghdad's beleaguered residents reveled in their victory, firing tracer rounds and other ammo into the air. For a squad once routinely brutalized by Saddam Hussein's son Uday, the game was for once untainted by terror...
...dangerous development that Americans face in Iraq is the menacing union of Sunni and Shi'ite radicals [April 19]. The members of the two main branches of Islam often don't respect each other. In Iraq there has always been a big gap between the Sunni government under Saddam Hussein and the country's Shi'ite majority, which was suppressed by the dictator and his followers. Now that Saddam is out and others are in power, both Sunnis and Shi'ites are disappointed and will start to fight hand in hand for an independent Muslim country. SIDHA BAGHAVATHA Bhopal, India...
...Ghraib Prison is, even by Iraq's perversely high standards, a place with a barbarous history. During Saddam Hussein's cruel regime, torture, humiliation and random murder were standard fare within its walls. That was all supposed to have changed when coalition forces took over last year and began filling the jail with captives from the motley Iraqi resistance. But it seems that echoes of those unsavory traditions have persisted...
...Saddam Hussein does not appear to be lacking in lawyers willing to defend him when he is tried for war atrocities and crimes against humanity, presumably in Baghdad next year. "I've had about 1,500 lawyers ask me if they can join my team," says Mohammad Rashdan, 55, a Jordanian lawyer retained by the ex-tyrant's first wife Sajida, who is exiled in Qatar. "Every time I go to court, lawyers come up and ask me if they can join the defense." But that might be a little premature: the job isn't Rashdan's quite yet. French...