Word: saddamism
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...retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support." In the past month, three in his unit have been killed and five injured, he says. Other fighters say they are receiving help and advice from former soldiers of Saddam Hussein's army--but not, they insist, from the hard-core units that massacred Shi'ites after their abortive 1991 uprising...
...backgrounds: traders, butchers, farmers, students and a great many unemployed. Most are ready to die for al-Sadr because they say he is the only one who dares to stand up for Islam against the Americans. Al-Sadr's revered father, an uncle and two brothers were murdered by Saddam's regime. But in the past few months, al-Sadr has developed his own voice as the champion of millions of poor Shi'ites who feel dispossessed and disillusioned a year into the occupation. Since the U.S. came, says Ali, the people have had "no services, no electricity, no water...
...policy repudiations, the U.S.'s abandonment of Chalabi may prove to be the most head-snapping reversal of all. A little more than a year ago, a triumphant Chalabi flew into Iraq escorted by U.S. special forces, having achieved his decade-long goal of persuading the U.S. to overthrow Saddam Hussein. But U.S. officials say last week's raid was the culmination of months of irritation with Chalabi over his discredited prewar claims about Saddam's weapons programs, the suspected corruption of I.N.C. members and Chalabi's criticism of the U.S. plan to hand political control to a U.N.-appointed...
...like to see change. In fact, the test is often whether we have the strength to not use force. Think of the strength it would have required, in the winter months of 2003, to hold our troops ready outside Iraq until we were dead certain that Saddam had weapons capabilities that threatened our nation. And think of the strength it would have taken to pull the troops back once Hans Blix’s UN inspection team confirmed that a combination of inspections and the threat of force had succeeded in disarming Iraq without a shot being fired. How?...
...Studies have lately warned that the achievement of U.S. goals in the Middle East depends on its ability to revive and complete the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The administration's approach has been to leave that issue on the back burner while pursuing Iraq on the assumption that ousting Saddam's regime would facilitate peace between Israel and the Palestinians - an argument dismissed as spurious by Zinni, Cordesman and others. Instead, the Iraq occupation and the ongoing conflict in the West Bank and Gaza has burnished al-Qaeda's appeal in relation to the pro-U.S. Arab regimes...