Word: saddamism
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...moment, Bush's instincts-his supporters would argue these are bedrock values-seem to be paying off. The President's attention span may be haphazard, but the immediate satisfactions are difficult to dispute. Saddam Hussein? Evildoer. Take him out. But wait, no WMD? No post-invasion planning? Deaths and chaos? Awful, but ... Freedom! Look at those Shi'ites vote! And now, after all that rapid-eye movement, who can say the Shi'ites and the Kurds won't create a government with a loyal Shi'ite-Kurd security force? And who can say the Sunni rebels won't-with some...
...Iraq invasion. Wilson figures in the story because he made a secret trip to Niger in 2002 at the CIA's request to determine if that country had sold a uranium ore known as yellowcake to Iraq, a key piece of evidence for the Administration's claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Wilson informed the CIA upon his return that he had found no evidence of an Iraqi purchase, yet the Administration continued to make the charge right up until the beginning of the war. After Wilson revealed his tale in July 2003, Plame's name...
...secret meeting is taking place in the bowels of a facility in Baghdad, a cavernous, heavily guarded building in the U.S.-controlled green zone. The Iraqi negotiator, a middle-aged former member of Saddam Hussein's regime and the senior representative of the self-described nationalist insurgency, sits on one side of the table. He is here to talk to two members of the U.S. military. One of them, an officer, takes notes during the meeting. The other, dressed in civilian clothes, listens as the Iraqi outlines a list of demands the U.S. must satisfy before the insurgents stop fighting...
...Kirkuk will be an early test for any new political order: The Kurds are pressing to have it included in their domain on the basis that much of its Arab population was settled there after Saddam had forcibly removed a large segment of the Kurdish population. That demand is fiercely resisted by the city?s Arab and ethnic Turk populations. Tensions are running high in the flashpoint city, with neighboring Turkey threatening to intervene to stop a Kurdish takeover - reconciling Kurdish and Sunni interests in Kirkuk at the national level could prove immensely challenging...
...administration has welcomed the election results and vowed to keep its troops there until security is established. The coming months, then, will usher in a new and complex political dance between the somewhat unlikely partnership of the Bush administration and the leaders chosen by the Iraqis it liberated from Saddam...