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...British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain didn't have the moral fiber to do it. Even if he was unaware of the intended genocide, he might have helped prevent a world war. Tony Blair believes he did the right thing in Iraq by removing a dangerous man from power. Saddam Hussein's policies and atrocities may not have had time to seem a global menace, but there was no way of knowing what he planned for the future or if he could be stopped at a later stage. Containment and prevention must surely be better than waiting for Saddam's hostilities...
...Leon Klinghoffer was shot and pushed overboard in his wheelchair; while in U.S. custody at a prison outside Baghdad. Abbas, whose real name was Mohammed Abbas, had lived in the Iraqi capital under government protection in recent years, but was captured by U.S. forces after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Abbas?who learned his guerrilla tactics while fighting alongside the Viet Cong in the late 1960s?came to epitomize the jet-setting international terrorist, living in Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Lebanon while organizing attacks against Israeli targets. His group, the Palestine Liberation Front, has accused...
Kerry’s remark at this forum was not the first time he has dismissed the contributions of the nations that joined the United States in toppling Saddam Hussein and reconstructing Iraq. In fact, Kerry—who is touted by his supporters as a man who would form lasting bonds with the rest of the globe—has demonstrated a consistent pattern of alienating and misunderstanding the role of our allies. In comments published in the Des Moines Register on March 9, 2003, Kerry declared, “The greatest position of strength is by exercising...
Kerry also implies that one alternative was leaving Saddam in power. "I never doubted Saddam Hussein's untrustworthiness and willingness to try to dupe the world," he says. "But we did have a no-fly zone over two-thirds of the country, and we had the ongoing inspections. If we could contain Russia through the cold war, certainly we could have dealt more effectively with Saddam Hussein through the international community." Kerry does acknowledge that the U.S. and the world are better off with Saddam in prison. But he argues that the ends do not justify the means, and while...
...fought on false pretenses, because that was the justification to the American people, to the Congress, to the world, and that was clearly the frame of my vote of consent. I said it as clearly as you can in my speech. I suggested that all the evils of Saddam Hussein alone were not a cause...