Word: saddamism
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...last week found that while nearly half the Iraqis questioned felt the situation in their country was worse now than before the war, two-thirds thought that within five years their lives would be better than before the invasion. Most deemed the current sacrifices worthwhile: 62% were happy that Saddam Hussein is gone. "I'm optimistic," says liquor-store owner Hussam Nadim, whose sales have tripled since the chaotic period of three months ago, during which his shop was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. "With time and a lot of work, I see things improving...
Many ordinary Iraqis complain that the media of other Arab nations are misrepresenting the situation, painting a one-dimensional picture of chaos and widespread antipathy to the U.S. Many Iraqis attribute the distortion to lingering Arab-media sympathies toward the Saddam regime. "They are wicked people," says Salah al-Sheikh, 31, a guard at an Arab embassy. "They say Americans are occupiers, but they are here to help us." The Governing Council last week temporarily barred two popular Arab satellite networks from attending council meetings...
...organizations like the Red Cross and CARE. The number of shooting and stabbing victims admitted to the hospital spiked to roughly 20 a day after the war, but is down to half that, according to doctors. "It is not ideal," says Moosa, "but then it was not ideal in Saddam's time. Psychologically, we are much better today...
...trader was actually sitting at home in Baghdad, waiting. He knew it was only a matter of time before the Americans came. It was just after curfew on the night of June 22, ten weeks after Saddam Hussein's fall, when he heard a helicopter overhead, the humvees in the street outside, the knock at the door. U.S. soldiers came rushing into the house, broke his bed, searched everywhere, then put a blindfold on him and drove him away...
...stressing that the account will not be the Survey Group's final word, CIA spokesman Bill Harlow allows that it "won't rule anything in or out." That remark seems a tacit acknowledgment that the U.S., after nearly six months of searching, has yet to find definitive evidence that Saddam truly posed the kind of threat the White House described in selling...