Word: saddamism
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...that Iraq had WMD ready to deploy in 45 minutes. So most observers expect the fac to exonerate him of the "sexing up" charge, though he will likely take flak for issuing a second paper last February that mixed up new intelligence information with an old graduate thesis on Saddam's power structure that one of his aides plagiarized from the Internet. And so Campbell is likely to emerge from the fray, still Europe's most powerful political image maker. But even his friends are wondering: Is he winning this battle but losing...
...answered the doorbell, and there they were, right in front of my face." ZAIDAN NASIRI, Iraqi businessman and friend of Saddam Hussein's, on finding Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay standing on his doorstep asking for shelter--which he provided for 24 days...
...could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power." DICK CHENEY, Vice President, justifying the Iraq...
...British leaders urgently want to find Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction to convince their public (and opposing politicians) that the war against Iraq was justified. Israel is just as interested in where those weapons are, but for another reason: to figure out why Israeli intelligence couldn't find them. A secret Israeli parliamentary committee began hearings last week to look into the matter. Sources tell TIME that the Knesset investigative committee will examine not whether Iraqis possessed chemical and biological weapons--of that the Israelis are certain--but rather why the Mossad, the country's international espionage organization...
...Gulf War I in 1991. As to what happened to these weapons in the intervening 12 years, I see only three possibilities: 1) they have been very well hidden in the California-size country, 2) they have been secretly moved out of Iraq into another country, or 3) Saddam voluntarily chose to destroy the wmd without maintaining any record or evidence of their destruction. For those who believe that No. 3 is the correct explanation, I would offer them a magnificent bridge over the Rhine at a bargain price. Marvin Clark Frankfurt