Word: saddamism
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...have acted any way other than we did after the events of 9/11 would have been dangerously naive. Michael Poppen Sioux Falls, South Dakota, U.S. I admire the way the president stands up for what he believes in and makes tough decisions rather than trying to be Mr. Popular. Saddam Hussein would have done something terrible down the road, and Bush knew the way to act was quickly, while Iraq was vulnerable. Joseph Zoltek Glenside, Pennsylvania, U.S. Bush ought to remember the words of H.L. Mencken: "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong...
...after a war - something he did not tell the country at the time. Looking unusually defensive, Blair used a press conference with Iraq's interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, to plead for putting all that in the past. "Whatever the disagreements about the first conflict in Iraq to remove Saddam, this conflict now is the crucible in which the future of this global terrorism will be determined," he said. But with his standing damaged by the news from Baghdad, his power to persuade is limited - as was obvious from the buoyant spirits at the Liberal Democrats' conference last week...
...After all, this war has taken a profoundly larger toll on innocent Iraqi civilians—unofficial estimates range from at least 10,000 to 37,000—and all of them, in addition to the thousand Americans, deserve to have died in a worthwhile struggle. While removing Saddam Hussein was an undeniable victory, a violent civil war hardly leaves Iraq better...
...viewed by many Iraqis as a sign that despite Bremer's departure, they remain under occupation. And on a number of key security decisions, ranging from the extent of an amnesty to be offered to insurgents to the question of whether to release two imprisoned women who'd served Saddam's germ warfare program (and whose freedom had been demanded by terrorists as the price for sparing the life of a hostage), the U.S. embassy appeared to have veto power. Despite the president talking up Allawi's credentials as the voice of a new Iraq, the former exile...
...President Bush likes to taunt that if John Kerry had been president, Saddam Hussein would still be in power. Kerry advocates counter that keeping Saddam contained would have allowed the U.S. to make far more headway in its battle against al-Qaeda, which Operation Iraqi Freedom has not only detracted from, but has also made considerably more difficult. (Rather late in the game, Kerry surrogates have begun to point out that Saddam Hussein did not rank even in the top three national security threats to the United States at the time of the invasion, but occupying Iraq has weakened...