Word: saddamism
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...year has brought with it a clear message that the Bush-Rumsfeld misadventure of going solo into Iraq needs reexamination. As Saddam Hussein’s coffin, strapped to a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter, traveled across the desert, the Pentagon reported that U.S. deaths in Iraq have reached a new high of 3,000 since the conflict began in 2003. Although President Bush has held intensive strategic meetings with his new Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, and other top security and army officials, his response to the report of the respected Iraq Study Group (ISG) has yet to materialize...
...hard to escape the feeling that the Administration's insistence on "an Iraqi-led" process for trying Saddam had little to do with justice or reconciliation. The Bush Administration remains openly disdainful of bodies of international justice, most notably the International Criminal Court. As a result, the U.S. showed no more interest in seeking international legitimacy for trying the Baathists than it did in deposing them. And like so much else about this war, the reliance on Iraqi courts was informed by a fantasy - the idea that Iraq's new leaders and the institutions they have established would somehow behave...
...what should be done now? If the U.S. were truly interested in averting more sectarian spectacles, it would go back to the Security Council and ask for the establishment of a U.N. tribunal for the members of Saddam's regime still awaiting trial. Then it would airlift all of those in custody out of the Green Zone and stick them in a secure facilities outside Iraq - perhaps in some of those "black sites" the CIA says it has vac ated. The Iraqis would howl, of course, but they lost their moral credibility with last week's lynching. The Bush Administration...
...Iraq any more," says Salleh al-Muttlag, an Iraqi parliament member. "It should end as soon as possible." The leader of a Sunni opposition bloc, Muttlag has never been high on Maliki. But his call for Maliki's resignation, one of many now rising in the wake of Saddam Hussein's execution , goes beyond demands for new leadership in the prime minister's office. Muttlag says the entire U.S.-backed political structure in Iraq, parliament included, should be torn down and rebuilt. "Reconciliation will never happen under the Maliki government or a similar government," says Muttlag. "We're now looking...
...only place where patience for Maliki is wearing thin. While in public President Bush has always expressed support for him, the White House has begun to signal its unease. Even Bush joined the chorus of voices condemning the way Maliki's government handled the execution of Saddam Hussein. And disagreements over strategy are becoming more apparent. For example, Maliki had pressed Bush to move U.S. troops from central Baghdad to the edge of the city, leaving the volatile downtown area in the hands of Iraq security forces. Instead, the White House's emerging strategy has most of a U.S. troops...