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...record: it is true that somewhere between 21,000 and 24,000 people have died since America’s Iraqi campaign began in March 2003. With the exception of Saddam??s murderous sons—and the gang of thugs employed as secret police by the Hussein family—each one of those deaths is a tragedy. It is even possible that many of them could have been averted if the administration’s blinded neo-cons had listened to Colin Powell and done some better pre-war planning...
...need these tools because we are thoroughly incompetent at cohabiting on our own. Unlike Saddam??s Baathist regime, Harvard students are armed with an unlimited supply of WMDs, a fully-stocked arsenal of H-Bombs. Unfortunately, because we all have them, the Harvard dating scene must abide by the M.A.D. principle of Mutually Assured Dorkiness: we’re immune to each other’s attacks. With our nuclear weaponry neutralized, we are effectively neutered, and so we need all the help we can get; hence the “Last Chance Dance...
Boyle chronicled other resistance fighters who did not quite fit the mold projected by the media. One such character, whom she called “The Syrian,” was a Shiite and not a Sunni, the sect that comprises Saddam??s Baathist party...
Largely ignored in the current coverage of the crisis in Iraq is the continuing plight of the Kurdish people. The slaughter of Saddam??s gas attacks in the late 1980’s stands out in the public consciousness, yet few have a historical perspective broad enough to truly understand the duration and severity of the oppression that has been foisted upon the Kurds...
Then there is the burgeoning scandal over the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food program, which supervised relief to Iraq from 1996–2003. Through smuggling and graft, Saddam??s regime stole more than $10 billion from the program, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office. One veteran U.N. reporter has predicted that “it could be the biggest financial crime in the history of humankind.” The scandal implicates, among others, U.N. Oil-for-Food executive director Benon Sevan, French and Russian oil contractors, and possibly even Kojo Annan, Kofi?...