Word: saddamism
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...scandal to rival liberals’ favorite refrains about Bush’s oil ties is in the works currently at Rockefeller Center. Instead of alleged conflict of interests with Halliburton, however, the recent scandal from the Oil-for-Food program is quite real. In this instance, while Saddam was skimming money off his side of the budget to pay sympathizers in other countries that kept his regime afloat diplomatically, Kofi made sure a Swiss company where his son, Kojo, was a top consultant won a large contract for the program...
...goal of establishing "Taliban-type" rule. In all, he used the words "terror" or "terrorist/terrorism" 19 times. But the president's characterization will hardly have resonated with his Iraqi audience, who see al-Qaeda as a problem brought into their country by the U.S. invasion rather than by Saddam Hussein. Even the U.S. intelligence community has long maintained that Saddam's regime had no connection with the 9/11 attacks, while U.S. commanders on the ground in Iraq say that foreign terrorists constitute only a small fraction of the insurgency facing Coalition troops there...
...Iraqis have a substantially different view of the nature of the security problem in their country from the one President Bush outlined. "Coalition forces and the Iraqi people have the same enemies," said President Bush, "the terrorists, illegal militia and Saddam loyalists, who stand between the Iraqi people and their future as a free nation." He suggested that after June 30, "when (Iraqis) patrol the streets of Baghdad or engage radical militias they will be fighting for their own country." But engaging "radical militias" has been very much an American idea, rather than an Iraqi one. So strong was Iraqi...
...least because the escalating danger of working there has slowed reconstruction to a near halt. But in Fallujah, the hotbed of the resistance, U.S. officials point to a recent outbreak of sanity. The Marines eased their stranglehold on the city three weeks ago, placed a former general in Saddam's army in charge of security and began joint patrols through the city with local Iraqi forces. So far, the patrols have gone off without major incident. The change in tactics--for weeks the U.S. had been threatening a massive assault on the city--was aimed, senior military sources...
...found something to celebrate last week when the IRAQ NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM beat Saudi Arabia, 3-1, to qualify for its first-ever Olympic berth. Baghdad's beleaguered residents reveled in their victory, firing tracer rounds and other ammo into the air. For a squad once routinely brutalized by Saddam Hussein's son Uday, the game was finally untainted by terror...