Word: saddamism
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...fact, military sources in Afghanistan tell TIME, Hilferty's statement was not based on concrete new information. But it did reflect a sense of rising optimism fueled in part by the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and in part by recent data gathering. A knowledgeable U.S. intelligence official tells TIME that a recent spike in intelligence has given government officials greater reason for hope than at any time since bin Laden escaped U.S. clutches in Tora Bora at the end of 2001. "There are some channels that are very active," this official says, declining to give details for fear...
...While Americans everywhere combed the internet for a closer look and set a new record for “most-Tivo-ed moment ever,” Powell expressed his outrage at a press conference. In language at least as harsh as that used by his father to describe Saddam Hussein, Powell described the incident as “deplorable” and vowed a “thorough and swift” federal investigation into… into what exactly? Justin Timberlake’s intentions? If only the administration were this eager to investigate 9/11, that commission they...
...Democrats with national aspirations--including Edwards, Lieberman, Kerry and, down the road, Hillary Clinton--had voted for the war. In Kerry's case, it was viewed as an antidote to his 1991 vote against the first Gulf War, since he couldn't be seen as soft on Saddam twice...
...voted for a war that most Americans still say they support. The problem is what he said about his reasoning when the vote became toxic among the Democratic faithful. Under pressure to explain, he declared during his announcement speech, "I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations." Threaten? Even at the time, it was clear the resolution was more than an invitation to rattle a sword. "Everyone knew what was going on," says a senior Democratic Senate aide. "People understood we were giving the President the authority...
...about Iraq's activities. The presence of the inspectors also functioned as a block on any ongoing WMD activities. But the Bush team had plainly planned to go to war regardless of what the inspectors found, or didn't find. For those among the antiwar Europeans who actually believed Saddam may have retained some WMD capability, the inspections were a valid strategy. After all, the U.S. and Britain could use their intelligence on Iraq's capability to point the inspectors to the suspect sites. But from very early on, chief inspector Hans Blix complained that the tips that...