Word: saddamism
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...whether battle would resume. But the pause was an acknowledgment of how much was at risk for all sides. The uprising poses a grave challenge to the seven-week-old interim government, which has yet to establish popular legitimacy or law and order amid the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq. Allawi had set himself up as a tough guy ready to impose draconian measures to quell the country's relentless violence. Yet taking the fight all the way to the golden-domed Imam Ali shrine, where al-Sadr's men were dug in, could spark uncontrollable rage among the country...
...combination of Islamic extremists and, secondly, some of Saddam's loyalists, who have been part and parcel of the Saddam atrocities. And third, it's the common criminals who have been released from prison...
...vacuum. Outlaws, extremists, people take to the streets. This is what is happening. So I would not characterize this as Iraqis fighting Iraqis. We don't have Arabs fighting Kurds and Shi'ites fighting Sunnis. It is a group of terrorists, a group of outlaws, a group of Saddam loyalists trying to impose their dangerous values on the Iraqi people, trying to impose chaos. This is something we're going to stand against...
...relationships; we are not party to this. This is between the two countries, the governments of the U.S. and Iran, and I think dialogue is very important to solve problems. As far as we are concerned in Iraq, we have had tensions in the past with Iran because of Saddam's reign. And there are some infiltrations. But we don't believe this is an Iranian government--controlled infiltration. We don't have proof or evidence of that yet. What has been happening with the Syrians and many other people is that they are interfering with Iraq because...
...flip-flop. When Kerry's eyes were opened to what was happening in Vietnam, he opposed the war that he had volunteered to fight in. I was taken in by the lies regarding the dangers posed by Iraq. I was in favor of a pre-emptive war to get Saddam Hussein before he used weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or supplied them to terrorists. I now realize we Americans were deceived by our President and Vice President. There is no virtue in blind, stupid stubbornness (neither mine nor our President's), no wisdom in sticking to an untenable...