Word: saddamism
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...that wasn't because they didn't consider themselves America's partners in the fight against terrorism. It was because invading Iraq had little or nothing to do with combating 9/11 terrorists. Krauthammer attempts to blur the lines between the war on terrorism and Bush's vendetta against Saddam Hussein. Paul Ruddock Daejeon, South Korea...
...Baghdad last week to demand direct elections in Iraq, Grand Ayatullah Ali Sistani stayed out of sight, holed up in the same nondescript white-walled compound on an alley off the Street of the Messenger in Najaf where he was kept under house arrest during the rule of Saddam Hussein. A crowd of followers seeking his counsel gathered outside. Some were allowed to enter; others were told by the guards to submit their questions in writing and come back another...
...backwards to downplay evidence that Blair aides had influenced John Scarlett, head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, to change the dossier to boost its public impact - as Gilligan in part had claimed. Jonathan Powell, Blair's chief of staff, worried in an e-mail that draft dossier language stating "Saddam is prepared to use chemical and biological weapons if he believes his regime is under threat" was "a bit of a problem" because "it backs up the ? argument that there is no cbw threat and we will only create one if we attack him." Scarlett took out the offending language...
...term "imposition," with its implicit message that the U.S. was attempting to dictate to others its own sense of how they should organize their politics, societies and economies. And you could feel it in the mutters that rippled through the Congress Hall when Cheney unapologetically said that Saddam Hussein's "long efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction are now finally at an end." Plenty in the audience were convinced that those efforts had ended a long time before the war in Iraq began...
...Some advocates of going to war to stop a WMD threat on U.S. soil have admitted their error: Former National Security Council official Ken Pollack, for instance, whose book "The Gathering Storm" made the case for many a liberal hawk that invasion was the only way to stop Saddam becoming a nuclear threat, provides an excruciatingly detailed explanation of how and why U.S. intelligence erred, but more importantly, concludes with a warning that Vice President Cheney might heed: "Fairly or not, no foreigner trusts U.S. intelligence to get it right anymore, or trusts the Bush Administration to tell the truth...