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...foundation began videotaping oral histories of survivors of Saddam??s brutal policies. On screen in one history, a mother holds up pictures of her pregnant daughter, her husband, her sons, all killed by the regime. She describes how an imprisoned friend’s sons were dragged away from her and never seen again...
...unlike many, he said he had little interest in what he called the “unseemly scramble” for political power. He wanted to reconstruct Iraqi identity after years of dictatorship, so he began planning a museum in Baghdad where people could search the records of Saddam??s atrocities for the names of family members and friends. He even secured a site for the museum around the crossed swords of Saddam??s Victory Arch...
...School and the author of “What Terrorists Want,” was the only one who predicted that night just how difficult the course of the conflict would be, Frieden wrote. Richardson said she remembers voicing doubt about how easy it would be to defeat Saddam??not a particularly prescient comment, it turned out—but also about how easy it would be to win the peace. “I certainly felt I was the lone wolf,” she said. “Nobody likes to be seen as soft...
...particular factors that led to his own failure of judgment comes in a single paragraph near the end of the article. A 1992 visit to the sites of the Kurdish genocide carried out on the orders of Saddam in Northern Iraq gave Ignatieff vivid, personal reasons for opposing Saddam??s regime. “The lesson I draw for the future is to be less influenced by the passions of people I admire—Iraqi exiles, for example—and to be less swayed by my emotions,” Ignatieff wrote. This unresolved tension between...
...terrorists” always been yesterday’s: Everyone remembers Ronald Reagan’s infamous 1983 invocation of “the ideals of freedom and independence” to describe the anti-Soviet mujahideen. And what of proactive U.S.- and U.K.-support for Saddam??s preemptive aggressiveness in the early 1980’s? And this against an Iran that had only recently emerged from 25 years ruled by a brutal dictator backed by an infamous, U.S.-trained secret police...