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...himself as a modern heir to Mesopotamian kings like Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi was born on April 28, 1937, on the banks of the Tigris in the hardscrabble village of Owja, just south of Tikrit. Saddam never knew his father, a shepherd, who disappeared six months before he was born. He was raised alternately by his mother and his uncle, a fervent Iraqi nationalist and an early supporter of the Iraqi Baath party who had an early ideological influence on the ambitious young Saddam. It may have influenced his mother's choice of a name for the child: Saddam means...
There is something very sinister to my mind in this mesopotamian entanglement," Winston Churchill wrote his Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, in August 1920. "Week after week and month after month for a long time we shall have a continuance of this miserable, wasteful, sporadic warfare marked from time to time certainly by minor disasters and cuttings off of troops and agents, and very possibly attended by some very grave occurrence...
...even though both candidates have decided to talk mostly about other things-a metaphor, perhaps, for the nation's traumatic paralysis over the Mesopotamian disaster. Lieberman's diffidence is understandable. His unflinching support for the war isn't very popular with even his strongest supporters. But Lamont seems almost as reticent. A few days earlier, I'd watched the challenger chug through an entire speech to an Indian-American group without talking about Iraq. "I didn't even talk about the war!" he said with pseudo amazement when he began to take questions. The challenger obviously is out to prove...
...levels and recruitment strategy of the U.S. military. The President may have been diverted by his second-term agenda-he vowed 60 Social Security speeches in 60 days!-and the Democrats may have given him a free pass on defense policy, but Bush's legacy is embedded in the Mesopotamian desert, and so is the nation's long-term security...
...moment of passion during a soporific day of questioning. Indeed, all of Washington seems buried under a goose-down comforter of complacency these days. The Republicans are smug, the Democrats disconsolate. The news from Iraq grows worse, but the electorate didn't seem to care about the President's Mesopotamian malfeasance in November, so why get all het up about it now? The astounding news that the Bush Administration was involved in reinterpreting the rules for the use of torture-a fact that has been known since the relevant Justice Department memo was leaked last June-has occasioned ... nothing...