Word: saddamism
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...Bush has to face threats like Osama bin Laden. I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war ... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late...
...Lessons of the Cold War Peter Beinart's essay "Let Your Enemies Crumble" [June 5] correctly pointed out that containment policies against repressive regimes have been successful, most notably with the Soviet Union during the cold war. The Soviet leaders, however, were consistently capable of rational judgment, whereas Saddam Hussein was not entirely so. If Saddam were still in power, isn't it likely that he would have been able to reconstitute at least some of his WMD programs by now? Channing Blickenstaff West Lafayette, Indiana...
...This is the fate of those who defend Saddam Hussein." ONLOOKER outside an Iraqi police station where the body of Khamis al-Obeidi, one of the former dictator's defense lawyers, was being held. Al-Obeidi, abducted and murdered last week, was the third member of the defense team killed since the trial began...
...parties that dominate in parliament, and are virulently against concessions that they say rewards the insurgency. They are skeptical of what they see as a U.S. effort to pressure the new government to make concessions to elements that Shiite leaders see as having been the foot-soldiers of the Saddam regime. Shiite opposition appears to have forced Maliki, in the words of one British newspaper, to "trim the olive branch" being offered to the insurgents...
...Unless those who have attacked U.S. forces are indemnified, they have no incentive to embrace any such deal. Elements such as al-Qaeda, and former senior figures of Saddam's regime who would likely face justice for previous crimes, have little interest in any political solution. Some of the larger rebel groups has already rejected Maliki's overture, dismissing the legitimacy of his government and demanding an end to the U.S. presence in Iraq. But Maliki's proposal excised any reference to U.S. withdrawal...