Word: saddamism
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...themselves: "I'm going to take care of me. I'll worry about my group and my identity." Any vision of the world is sacrificed for that. We've seen it with the war in Iraq. The fear button gets pushed and everyone is like, "Let's go after Saddam Hussein...
...hacks like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are spending their time whining about how we shouldn’t have gone to war in the first place, Ricks accepts the reality that we did, and implicitly points out that there really was no way of ever conclusively knowing whether Saddam had nukes...
...Iraqi government's move to change the presiding judge of the trial has the courtroom in some upheaval. Saddam has been ejected three times in as many sessions. The defense attorneys refuse to attend. The new, court-appointed defense attorneys have had just a week to catch up on the complex case, which requires a command of Iraqi military jargon and weapons expertise. In court on Monday, the judge had to repeatedly ask the defense attorneys to clarify their questions and dismissed multiple queries as "irrelevant." The defendants themselves, frustrated at the sometimes-deficient cross-examination by their lawyers, pointed...
...trial is unlikely to proceed, however, without Saddam inside the rust-colored metal bars of the dock. Even if the former dictator refuses to attend, the court can demand that Saddam be brought before the judge by force. Guards used force during the Dujail case in February to bring Saddam and three other defendants, disheveled and in their pyjamas, to hear testimony. Saddam then claimed he was on a hunger strike to protest his rough treatment by then chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman...
...advisors to the court want Saddam in the courtroom to face his accusers. The Regime Crimes Liaison Office (RCLO) that provides training and logistical support to the court "was not happy about Saddam being kicked out," said an Iraqi official. "They would rather see him there all the time." The U.S. embassy does not comment on the private discussions with the court, said spokesman Lou Fintor, adding that "the Iraqi people deserve to see those that committed crimes during the former regime brought to justice." But Saddam hasn't made a friend on the bench. Just before he was ejected...