Word: ridding
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...Dean has continued to beat the anti-war drums. "We've gotten rid of him," Dean said of Saddam Hussein's ouster. "I suppose that's a good thing." Pressed again last week on CNN, Dean refused to concede that Iraq is better off without Saddam. And two weeks ago, while campaigning at a Stonyfield yogurt factory in New Hampshire, the would-be Commander-in-Chief suggested that America should be planning for a time when it is not the world's greatest superpower : "We have to take a different approach [to diplomacy]. We won't always have the strongest...
...Baghdad was already rid of Saddam Hussein, and images of Iraqis celebrating had been beamed into Saudi homes. But in Buraydah, the war was being recast as a bloody confrontation between the region's three great religious civilizations. Still, there was no radical call to arms...
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...True, Iraqi Shiites are gratified that the U.S. got rid of Saddam. Yet there is no evidence that a majority of Iraqi Shiites hold different views from Arabs throughout the Middle East who bitterly criticize American support for Israel against the Palestinians. Before recent events, they were also angry toward the U.S. for once supporting Saddam's regime, and for standing back while Saddam slaughtered thousands of Shiites who responded to Bush the Elder's call to rise up during Gulf...
Brilliant will stick around to see the outcome, even now that Weis has taken over the CEO role. "I'm on the board of directors," Brilliant says. "They can't get rid of me." After all, there's still one more mountain to climb. --With reporting by Leslie Berestein/Los Angeles, Joshua Macht/New York, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco and Donald Macintyre/Seoul