Word: saddamism
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...introduction to Kurdish cinema and, with critical support, they won awards at festivals from Cannes to Chicago. Now he has made Turtles Can Fly - the name refers to the freedom that comes with death - which already has a place in cinema history as the first feature shot in post-Saddam Iraq to be released. "We had 30 bodyguards, land-mine experts, and the Kurdish opposition to Iraq protecting us," Ghobadi says. Billed as an Iraq-Iran co-production, the film is Iran's entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar. Despite his heavy concentration on the lives of the Kurds...
...demand to know how some people received preferential deals to buy Iraqi oil below market price and then reap huge profits. The U.N. has been an anti-American club for years. One of the many reasons its credibility is questioned is the failure to enforce its resolutions against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Scott Anderson Green Valley, Arizona, U.S. So Republican Senator Norm Coleman thinks Annan should resign his post simply because the alleged oil-for-food scandal happened on his watch? What, then, does Coleman think George W. Bush should do? What about the "catastrophic success...
...demand to know how some people received preferential deals to buy Iraqi oil below market price and then reap huge profits. The U.N. has been an anti-American club for years. One of the many reasons its credibility is questioned is the failure to enforce its resolutions against Saddam Hussein's Iraq...
...Josh Rushing, a fellow so appealingly earnest in a tough job - explaining the U.S. invasion to journalists - that he would be the hero of any other film. (Rushing resigned his commission this year, joining the Veterans? antiwar brigade Operation Truth and saying of the Administration?s purported evidence of Saddam?s WMDs, ?I felt personally duped.?) In the other half, the film focuses on the station?s headquarters in Qatar, where its program director, Samir Khader, rails eloquently at U.S. media, then adds, ?Mind you, if I were offered a job at Fox News, I?d take...
...from the State Department and the CIA are the same breed - sometimes the same people - who helped bungle U.S. policy in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda and a few other hot spots of the 90s. With their track record, any Administration might have been skeptical of their advice on Osama and Saddam...