Word: saddamism
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...Which brings me to Iraq. I want to tell you something I've never acknowledged: the U.N. inspection regime that was forced on Saddam Hussein in 2002 was working. We should have had more patience with it and supported it more fully. In the end, it would have revealed what we now know: that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction. That revelation would have destroyed the dictator's credibility. His brutal regime might have toppled from within. At the very least, his power would have been severely compromised. But-impatient again-we rushed to war, without sufficient preparation...
...that no one wants to address the dirty little secret about the war? Iraq and the rest of the world--especially the U.S.--would be much better off if Saddam Hussein had been left in power. The only thing that the Iraqi people have proved through this fiasco is that they deserve a tyrant. Your cover story "Life in Hell" made more sense than the Bush Administration's delusional claim of "Mission Accomplished." Larry Maysack Haymarket...
Ghosh says that all Baghdad's residents are experiencing "Life in Hell." Iraq isn't exactly paradise, but perhaps Ghosh should have spent time in other places, say, Darfur, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans--or Iraq when it was still under Saddam Hussein's rule. William West Fairborn, Ohio...
...Thus the administration truly is committed to staying the course, at least metaphorically. In his March 2003 speech giving Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave Iraq, the President said, "In the 20th century, some chose to appease murderous dictators, whose threats were allowed to grow into genocide and global war. In this century, when evil men plot chemical, biological and nuclear terror, a policy of appeasement could bring destruction of a kind never before seen on this earth." During the 2004 campaign, Bush and Vice President Cheney frequently invoked appeasement as well, saying that, as the President put it, "America...
...never accept the claim that an Iraqi woman was raped while Saddam is President. How could I walk with my head up?" SADDAM HUSSEIN, ousted Iraqi dictator, denying allegations that Kurdish women were raped in prison during his regime, at the opening of his second trial for crimes against humanity...