Word: saddamism
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...should not be surprised by the Iraqi insurgency. Iraqis see the American and coalition forces as occupiers, not liberators. Why shouldn't there be resistance? Remember: neither the international community nor the U.N. approved the occupation, the belief that Saddam threatened the world with weapons of mass destruction was false, and the horrible events of 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq. Having decided to invade a sovereign country, the Bush Administration finds it cannot walk away. This adventure had disaster written all over it from the start. Derrick Elliston London...
...Iraq is over; nothing can be done to reinstate Saddam. The occupation government in Iraq, however, should not be replaced before its work is done. The Iraqi insurgents are only prolonging the occupation. A democratic government in Iraq cannot emerge during a state of chaos. Let Iraq learn from Japan, which was able to achieve postwar greatness because the Japanese exercised restraint during the U.S. Occupation after World War II. Okoro Ndukwe Aba, Nigeria...
...warnings about terrorist threats did not raise any red flags within the Bush Administration, but the flimsy intelligence on Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction was sufficient to compel the U.S. to go to war at a cost of hundreds of American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars? The President and his staff are clearly hypocritical, if not criminally irresponsible. Ben Robertson Windsor, Canada...
...With Saddam's Consent The grim scenes of kidnapping and violence in Iraq [IRAQ, April 19] are a depressing contrast to the rapid rout of Saddam Hussein's troops after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in the Gulf War of 1991. Not long after the end of that conflict, however, Saddam was already reasserting his power, as we noted in a March 29, 1993, article. This piece also revealed his barbaric wartime behavior, as detailed in a U.S. government report...
...years after Saddam's shattering defeat in the Gulf War, the Iraqi dictator remains in full control of the Baghdad government ... Every step he takes has been aimed at buttressing his authority ... Saddam's power base remains solid ... 'When things threaten to fall apart,' says Baghdad novelist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 'you stick with the man who can hold it together.' ... Citizens are unlikely to be moved by the U.S. report made public last week cataloging just how brutally Saddam's forces behaved in the Gulf War. According to Pentagon investigators, Iraq tortured and killed 1,082 Kuwaiti civilians and violently...