Word: saddamism
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...even more damage to White House credibility last week. Asked at a news conference whether the "Mission Accomplished" banner had been prematurely boastful, the president backed away from it, saying it had been put up by the sailors and airmen of the Lincoln to celebrate their homecoming after toppling Saddam's regime...
...same time I don’t think that France is willing to share the risk,” Veenita Kaushik, a local resident and self-described “foreign policy buff,” complained. “France provided the perfect crack for Saddam to manipulate...
...misplacing the emphasis in its reasoning. The fact of the matter is that a president should never put our military personnel in harm’s way unless he is sure that more lives will be saved than will be lost. As it becomes increasingly clear that Saddam Hussein posed no threat to American national security, the tragedy of 345 and counting young lives lost becomes greater and greater. And it is that enormous tragedy that we should be focusing on, because the opinion of Jacques Chirac, the profits of Halliburton and the temporary hardship imposed on the Iraqi people?...
Iraq kids are going back to school. Local councils are being elected, and local security forces are being trained. The power supply is improving, and buyers and sellers in Iraq's lively marketplaces can now conduct their transactions with banknotes free of the scowling visage of the tyrant Saddam. That was the picture Deputy Defense Secretary had hoped to show a skeptical American media corps during a PR tour of Iraq last weekend, before insurgents made a mockery of his efforts by slamming rockets into his hotel in the most heavily-guarded part of Baghdad. But that attack...
...violence against the U.S., waiting out the political process, which, if it is democratic, will grant them the dominant political role commensurate with their demographic majority. Even those most inclined to pursue a path of confrontation with the U.S. are unlikely, given their historical suffering at the hands of Saddam's regime, to make common cause with the Sunni insurgents...