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...imperative that Saddam Hussein answer not to an Iraqi court for crimes against the Iraqi people, but to a court of international law for crimes against humanity. Saddam??s transgressions are not injuries to the current, emerging Iraqi state, but deep wounds in the fabric of civilization. The wrongs of which he stands accused are too wicked to be adjudicated by any authority short of an international...
Second, we need to find the right mix of forces. Iraqi and allied forces must take over the more routine tasks like border patrol, so that U.S. forces can focus on running an agile, intelligence-driven campaign to root out the remnants of Saddam??s regime. And we need the help of Iraq’s neighbors to close the borders to the jihadists pouring into Iraq...
...nothing. As Ralph A. Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies, noted in his group’s policy journal, “French President Jacques Chirac seemed more concerned about containing George Bush (or U.S. global leadership in general) than Saddam??s weapons of mass destruction.” Chirac’s political maneuvering, enabled by France’s veto power on the Security Council, made it impossible for the U.S. to rely solely on international organizations in dealing with the Iraqi threat. In his ultimatum speech in March...
...United States cannot remain idle while dangers gather.” Saddam Hussein was unquestionably seeking nuclear capabilities. Even as long ago as June 1981, Israeli aircraft bombed a (French-built) plutonium plant at Tuwaitah—an action that proved to be only a temporary setback to Saddam??s nuclear program...
...shake off their curse. Bush has lost home field advantage, and Democrats no longer have to compete in his field of dreams, where the strike zone expands with each apocalyptic speech and where America’s legendary opponents—that’s you guys, Osama and Saddam??are allowed to vanish the moment they walk off the field...