Word: saddamism
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...terrorist havens. If the terrorists are faced with the prospect of total extermination, they at least might think twice about their actions. Werner Meyer Düsseldorf, Germany I am thankful to president bush because he had the courage to make the decision to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a problem not only for Iraq but for other countries as well. The American and British invasion has broken the rule of this dictator. The situation in Iraq is very difficult and dangerous, but the coalition must remain until there is no further threat from the insurgents. Luigi...
...with that non-existent yellow-cake uranium from Niger? Despite CIA analysts’ concerns about the strength of the evidence, Thomas Rider, the former politically-appointed intelligence chief at the Department of Energy, went ahead and used it as the basis for a July 2002 report arguing that Saddam was beginning to reconstitute his nuclear weapons programs (whereupon he received a big pay bonus). I don’t believe the CIA should be exempted from political oversight, but neither am I eager to see the whole-scale politicization of our national intelligence apparatus...
...primary strategic purpose of recapturing Fallujah, however, was to facilitate Sunni participation in the January election, and more generally in the post-Saddam order authored by the U.S. And while the military operation, if followed by a substantial troop presence in the city, may facilitate the opening of polling stations in Fallujah, that fact alone may not be enough to encourage Sunni voters to turn out. Indeed, the operation in Fallujah strengthened calls to boycott the election by the Association of Muslim Scholars, an organization influential among Sunni clerics, and prompted the main Sunni political party to withdraw from...
Kerry's message that day was clear and sharp. "Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell," he said. "But that was not, in itself, a reason to go to war. The satisfaction we take in his downfall does not hide this fact: we have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure." As one of his top strategists later put it, "You could physically tell the difference between John Kerry before and after that speech. He was liberated to go run a presidential campaign...
...Says Saddam? You Say Osama...