Word: saddamism
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...Bush wants to solve Iraq's problems in time for his re-election campaign. It won't happen, and lots more Iraqis and British and American soldiers will lose their lives. Because of all their ethnic divisions, the Iraqis need a dictator, although not an evil one like Saddam. The country needs a firm hand. Bush and Blair have learned nothing from history. Violence begets violence, causes misery and tragedy and leaves families without fathers. Geoffrey Curd Walton, England...
According to Ahmed al-Rahim, Harvard’s preceptor in Arabic, tight restrictions on the availability of books and scholarly journals imposed on Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s 25-year regime, especially since the last Gulf War, prevented Iraqi academics from keeping up with developments in their fields...
...thing [that has been] discussed after the fall of Baghdad was that there was a lot of money that was taken from the Oil For Food program—money that Saddam and his cronies pocketed,” he said. “That impacted the education system and libraries as well. There was no money for books and academic journals...
Omar al-Dewachi, an Iraqi medical school graduate who is now pursuing a doctorate in anthropology at Harvard, said academic resources in Iraq had stagnated because of sanctions and censorship in Saddam Hussein’s regime...
...stretching from Jalalabad, near Afghanistan's eastern border, to Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold in the south. The official says a small contingent of special-operations troops taken out of Afghanistan for the war in Iraq--including members of the elite Joint Task Force 121, which helped track down Saddam Hussein--will be reinserted for the offensive. While the U.S. pushes east along a broad front, Pakistani forces will push west, flooding the tribal areas in what Lieut. General David Barno, commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, calls a "hammer and anvil" strategy. "The idea is to come...