Word: saddamism
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Orthodox opinion in the Democratic Party holds that there was never any real linkage between Saddam Hussein’s regime and Osama bin Laden, and the Bush administration either “exaggerated” or outright lied about such a connection during the build-up to war. This assumption has become pervasive on talk shows and editorial pages. Indeed, many Democrats and liberal pundits speak as if the Baathist-al Qaeda connection had been conclusively refuted...
...part, the administration has generally shied away from offering specific evidence of ties since the regime fell in April. Opponents have interpreted this hesitance as a concession that there wasn’t any Saddam-al Qaeda relationship after all. They have also seized on the president’s recent statement that there are no indications Iraq was complicit in the Sept. 11 attacks...
...claim that France has been either inconsistent or motivated by a desire to see the U.S. fail. In a long interview with TIME in February, President Jacques Chirac laid out his policy with admirable clarity. France, he said, had no difference with the U.S. "over the goal of eliminating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction." The point of distinction was simply that Chirac thought that war - which he believed would outrage Arab and Islamic public opinion and "create a large number of little bin Ladens"--should be a last resort...
Mugabe is an African Saddam Hussein and has single-handedly driven a once-prosperous people into wholesale poverty and failure. If ever a country cried out for regime change, Zimbabwe...
...uphold the credibility of the United Nations. Overthrowing the tyrant has freed the Iraqi people and the left the Middle East safer, he insisted. But the absence of evidence showing that Iraq maintained weapons of mass destruction or al-Qaeda links, and the ongoing security crisis in post-Saddam Iraq has, if anything, amplified criticism over Washington's decision to launch a war without Security Council authorization...