Word: saddamism
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Though the Kurds were a key partner of the U.S. in ousting Saddam, American authorities oppose their efforts to run local Arabs out of town. "The people involved in Saddam's schemes--mostly Arabs--came here following economic incentives, and many of them moved into new homes they built themselves," says Colonel William C. Mayville Jr., the U.S. commander of coalition forces in Kirkuk. Says Britain's Emma Sky, director of the Coalition Provisional Authority in the city: "We are not here to ethnically cleanse any group. People should be able to choose where they live. These people were...
Locals, in the meantime, are taking matters into their own hands. New Kurdish neighborhoods have sprung up in army barracks, government offices, Saddam's old intelligence headquarters, a youth center and beside Kirkuk's soccer stadium. A U.S. military officer says ethnic militias on all sides are adding to their already substantial arms caches. Local Turkomans, fearing domination by Kurds, have formed a new alliance with Kirkuk's Arabs. Aliya Chakmakchi, a Turkoman who works as a secretary for the U.S. Army in Kirkuk, voices a widespread fear: "If the U.S. leaves here, everyone will just murder each other...
...found a couple of semitrailers ... I would deem that conclusive evidence, if you will, that he did have programs for weapons of mass destruction." DICK CHENEY, Vice President, asserting IN AN INTERVIEW that Saddam Hussein had been developing illegal weapons...
...order to avoid making it a tourist attraction or a shrine, we believe the best course of action is to eliminate it." ROBERT CARGIE, spokesman for the U.S. 4th Infantry Division in Iraq, after the unit asked for permission to destroy the hole in which its soldiers found Saddam Hussein...
...strategy is not without risk. Appointing a commission is a tacit admission that the original case for war did not pan out. But the administration has moved since last summer to emphasizing reasons other than WMD to justify the invasion: Saddam was an evil dictator who threatened his neighbors and brutalized his people; the world, and Iraq in particular, is a better place without him. Opinion polls suggest that many Americans are ready to forgive the administration its exaggeration of the WMD threat if the Iraq invasion produces a happy ending at a limited cost in American lives and treasure...